Results 921-940 of 1,095 for speaker:Jimmy Devins
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (1 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: As part of the Multi-Annual Investment Programme 2006-2009 under the Disability Strategy, the Government provided the Health Service Executive with an additional â¬75m in both 2006 and 2007. This funding included monies to provide new and enhanced services for people with disabilities, to implement Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005, which came into effect on June 1st 2007 for the under 5's...
- Written Answers — Disability Allowance: Disability Allowance (1 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: The Deputy's question concerns monthly payments made to Irish survivors of thalidomide. Of the thirty-one people in receipt of the payment two people receive an annual payment of â¬5,977.80, one person receives â¬7,151.65, three people receive â¬9,555.16, two people receive â¬10,666.88, three people receive â¬11,745.49 and twenty people receive â¬12,888.21. The thalidomide product sold...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (1 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Irish Economy: Motion (Resumed) (14 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: I welcome the opportunity to restate our economic priorities which have helped make Ireland one of the wealthiest nations in Europe, enabled us to ride out a downturn already this decade and left us well positioned to maintain respectable growth rates during the current economic turbulence. Maintaining the capacity of the economy to consistently generate new employment opportunities requiring...
- Irish Economy: Motion (Resumed) (14 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: The anti-inflation group is actively engaging with the CSO, the Competition Authority, the National Consumer Agency and the Commission for Energy Regulation with a view to co-ordinating and driving the fight against inflation on an informed basis. The Government is very conscious of the need to control costs to maintain competitiveness. Through the national development plan and our taxation...
- Irish Economy: Motion (Resumed) (14 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: It is just the last paragraph.
- Irish Economy: Motion (Resumed) (14 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: This Government will continue its firm commitment to implement policies to drive economic growth, to build on the higher value sectors of the economy, particularly in the knowledge-based areas, and to enhance productivity through investment under the national development plan, the strategy for science, technology and innovation and through the skills strategy.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: I would like to share time with Deputies Finian McGrath, O'Connor, Calleary, Flynn, Scanlon, Healy-Rae and Dooley.
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: This debate is about the provision of cancer services. The single most important person in the health service is the patient, or service user. The health service must be geared to provide the best outcome for the patient. That applies to the provision of cancer care as much as it does to any other area of health care. It has been acknowledged by Members on all sides of the House that the...
- Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: That is not true.
- Constituency Commission Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2008)
Jimmy Devins: I thank Deputy Byrne for sharing time. The Constituency Commission is independent and, with the history of gerrymandering that went on in this country, it is vitally important that it remains so. At the same time, some anomalies have arisen. I refer to the north west and particularly Sligo-North Leitrim. When I was first elected to the House, the constituency was Sligo-Leitrim, a...
- Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the important topic of energy and taxation. During the course of the debate, Deputies have made some interesting contributions. My colleagues, the Ministers for Finance and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, have set out the Government's response to the proposal. This morning, having followed the debate closely, I echo the comments made by...
- Carbon Allowances: Motion (Resumed) (5 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: The development of such sources and technologies is key to lowering our high dependency on fossil fuels and delivering a sustainable energy platform into the future. As the Minister for Finance has pointed out, Ireland has a low burden of taxation in respect of labour and capital, a policy that has stood us well up to now and one which the Government is intent on maintaining. On the...
- Job Losses. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: I express my disappointment at the decision of the company to close its Cork operations and I have asked the State development agencies under the aegis of my Department to make every effort to assist the workers being made redundant in securing alternative employment. Freescale is a large global company that regularly makes adjustments to resources as a normal course of operations to meet...
- Job Losses. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: I said "in addition to cost factors", as cost factors affect any company or business environment.
- Job Losses. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: There are other factors such as firm consolidation, business take-overs and market forces. County Cork has benefited from an increase in overall jobs from 13,000 in 1998 to more than 20,000 last year. These are largely in the bio-pharmaceutical and ICT sectors. The Deputy is correct in that the Government is committed to developing jobs at third and fourth level, which we call value-added...
- Job Losses. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: No, the opposite is the case. The thrust of our development is to encourage new jobs in this area. For example, Google encourages employees to go along that line. The primary and secondary education sectors have a very active programme to encourage children to take up science and engineering. This is starting to bear fruit already.
- Job Losses. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: We are not losing jobs; we are actually increasing jobs in the area.
- Employment Rights. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: The National Employment Rights Authority, NERA, was established in 2007 on an interim basis on foot of a commitment in the social partnership agreement Towards 2016. NERA has responsibility for the promotion and enforcement of compliance with employment law generally. Under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 NERA may undertake inspections to check compliance with the provisions of the Act...
- Employment Rights. (19 Jun 2008)
Jimmy Devins: No breaches of employment law have occurred, other than the two I outlined. There is absolutely no evidence of what the Deputy says. If he has evidence and forwards it to us, we will refer it directly to NERA for investigation.