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- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The year to year costs of incremental pay increases are normally offset by corresponding reductions in costs associated with retirements and other movements by staff on higher points on the incremental scales and their replacement by staff on lower points. Incremental increases are not therefore individually costed and there is no separate provision for incremental increases in my...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: On the basis of my Department's 2008 Estimates provision, the cost of the 2.5% pay increase payable from 1 September 2008 is estimated at â¬464,000 gross in 2008, or â¬1.392 million gross on a full year basis for my Department and its offices. While no specific additional provision has been included in my Department's 2009 Estimate for the payment of the 3.5% pay increase which would become...
- Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: As stated in question number 62 and 63 last week, IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas, including Kildare, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. While I may give general policy directives to the Agency, I...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: While this is broadly an operational matter for Enterprise Ireland (EI), I understand that the primary benefit of locating Dublin based staff in a single location will be to significantly increase the level of collaboration and efficiency within the organisation which will enable Enterprise Ireland to deliver a more effective service to client companies. There are likely to be considerable...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. The programme helps unemployed people to progress to the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work...
- Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 188 and 189 together. Shannon Development, in common with all Government Departments and state agencies, were required to effect specified levels of savings in their Pay and Administration expenditure for 2009. All of Shannon Development's Pay and Administration costs are met from the Company's own resource income, generated mainly from its management of...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Enterprise Ireland (EI) is to move almost 300 posts to Shannon under the decentralisation programme. Progress on the full transfer of EI's HQ to Shannon, within the Government decentralization programme, will be influenced by factors (many external to EI) such as; the level of interest in the Shannon location expressed by CAF applicants and by progress made in discussions at a central level...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including those with a disability) with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. The eligibility criteria and participation limits for CE are set by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: My Department operates a range of active labour market programmes and back to work measures, mainly through FÃS and Skillnets. The total programme allocation under the main measures in 2007 was â¬892 million. The projected programme budget for 2008 is â¬922.3 million and a breakdown of measures is set out in the table. A detailed breakdown, by measure, of the budget for 2009 is...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The Government, with the National Training and Employment Authority, FÃS constantly reviews its labour market programme provision, taking into account client demand, placement, labour market trends and stakeholder feedback. Since 2007, my Department and FÃS have continued to implement a suite of active labour market and back to work measures with a particular focus on job-search, training...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: An additional â¬9.5 million has been provided from the National Training Fund in the 2009 FÃS budget to provide additional training for the unemployed. My Department, through its National Employment and Training Authority, FÃS has a number of measures currently under development that are designed to assist both those who have recently been made redundant as well as those who have become...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: FÃS has provided a ring-fenced â¬500,000 budget under the Technical Employment Support Grant to fund customised and flexible training programmes for redundant construction workers to enable them to return to employment as soon as possible. The fund is targeted on the provision of retraining opportunities for redundant construction workers in emerging areas such as the installation of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (29 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The scheme of performance-related awards in the civil service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. Details of awards to individual officers under the performance related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned. A total of â¬168,000 was paid to 14 officers of my Department and associated Offices under the scheme...
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: It is proposed to take No. 2, Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill 2008 â Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 45, motion re education cuts, to be taken after the Order of Business and to conclude after 90 minutes, if not previously concluded.
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: On the issue of the legislationââ
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: On the issue of the legislation to deal withââ
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: ââthe changes with the medical cards, as has been indicated by the Taoiseach, there are two pieces of legislation which will be brought forward.
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: The fair deal will be announced next week and the contents thereof can be discussedââ
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: ââwith regard to the issue of the tax changes that can take place within the Finance Bill. On the final issue, if Deputy Joe McHugh would like to talk to me afterwards, I will put him straight.
- Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)
Mary Coughlan: I answered clearly and distinctly.