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Banking System: Motion. (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: It was a conflict of interest all right, they lost a great deal of money.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: 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. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: The Employment Law Compliance Bill, which is currently being considered at second stage in the Dáil provides, in Section 19, for the establishment of an Advisory Board to NERA. The purpose of the Board is to act in an Advisory capacity to the Director and to allow NERA to draw on the collective expertise and knowledge of the members. The Board has been established on an interim basis since...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Since 2004, Irish labour market policy has been to ensure that general labour and skills needs are met from within the workforce of the European Union. For strategic skills or labour shortages in designated occupations in key economic sectors, Government policy is to issue employment permits for the employment of non-EEA nationals for specific vacancies and in response to employer demand....

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on Temporary Agency Work was adopted, on 19 November 2008. Under the terms of this directive there is a three-year period in which Member States will be required to transpose the Directive into national legislation i.e. by 5 December 2011. The Deputy will recall that I have invited the Social Partners to discussions with my...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 76, 85 and 108 together. The Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008 is designed to give effect to commitments in Part 2 of the 10 Year Framework Social Partnership Agreement, Towards 2016, to greatly increase public confidence in the system of employment law compliance. The establishment of a new, statutory office — NERA — to secure better compliance with...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: On 1 January 2006 responsibility for the Social Economy Programme transferred to the Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs and been re-named as the Community Services Programme. FÁS as an agency of my Department operates Job Initiative (JI). The Job Initiative Programme (JI) was launched in July 1996 and provides full time employment for people who are 35 years of age or over,...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: 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. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: The Health and Safety Authority is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and associated statutory provisions. The number of workplace deaths reported to the Authority for the years 2002- 2008 are as follows — 57 in 2008; 67 in 2007; 51 in 2006; 74 in 2005; 50 in 2004; 68 in 2003 and 61 in 2002. Non-fatal accidents, resulting...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I have not made any comment to the effect that I consider that the national minimum wage should be lowered. What I said was that, whatever, rate applies, it is important that the national minimum wage is not a barrier to employment. Protection of jobs must be our top priority and I think all sides accept that as the key goal. This is also the view of the Tánaiste. I understand that in...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Trade unions holding a negotiating licence are free to engage in collective bargaining on wages and conditions of employment. Ireland's system of industrial relations is based on a voluntarist approach with terms and conditions of employment being determined in the main by a process of voluntary collective bargaining between the parties, without the intervention of the State. The collective...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: NERA currently has in place a team of seventy-nine inspectors. Recruitment competitions were held to bring the number of Inspectors from the original level of thirty one inspectors up to the level of ninety committed to under Towards 2016. A total of sixty inspectors were assigned to NERA from these competitions. Twelve inspectors left NERA over the past year as a result of promotion,...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 111 together. I attach in Table 1 are the amount of monies paid out of the Social Insurance Fund in respect of redundancy claims for the years 2002-2008 up to and including 13 February, 2009. It should be noted that the figures provided for 2008 and to date in 2009 are provisional figures. It is not possible to project the figure for 2009 given that...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: The current Irish law in the area of "transfer of undertakings" is the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 — Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 131 of 2003. The Regulations implement the mandatory (i.e mandatory to transpose) provisions of EU Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 which is aimed at safeguarding the rights of...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: The current Irish law in the area of "transfer of undertakings" is the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 — Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 131 of 2003. The Regulations implement the mandatory (i.e mandatory to transpose) provisions of EU Council Directive 2001/23/EC of 12 March 2001 which is aimed at safeguarding the rights of...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (24 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Payment of statutory redundancy is, in the first instance, a matter for the employer. The former employer of the applicant is deceased and subsequently, when my Department initiated communication with the representatives of the former employer, it was understood that there was a willingness to honour the statutory redundancy entitlement of the applicant. However, despite extensive efforts...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: The Redundancy Payments Section of my Department has received an application for a statutory lump sum payment in respect of the above person. The claim is at an advanced stage of processing and, subject to the criteria being fully met, payment of the claim can be expected to issue shortly.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Further to my reply in response to a question put down on 5 February regarding the situation of staff at the company to which the Deputy refers, the Tánaiste has received a number of representations from staff at the company to which she has just very recently responded. In the context of Redundancy entitlements, my Department is not in a position to pay out the statutory redundancy...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Lynch can praise me any time she likes.

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2009)

Billy Kelleher: Further to my reply in response to a question put down on 5 February regarding the situation of staff at the company to which the Deputy refers, the Tánaiste has received a number of representations from staff at the company to which she has just very recently responded. In the context of Redundancy entitlements, my Department is not in a position to pay out the statutory redundancy...