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- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The labour inspectorate of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is responsible for monitoring certain employment conditions for all categories of workers in Ireland, including immigrant workers. The inspectorate operates without any differentiation with regard to worker nationality, as statutory employment rights and protections apply to immigrant workers in exactly the same...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 304 and 305 together. There are currently 16 EU directives relating to employment law and occupational health and safety due to be transposed into Irish law by this Department. Of these 16 directives, seven are overdue for transposition. The details of these directives, their current position, including any enforcement proceedings being taken by the European...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: EU Directive 2003/18/EC amends the existing Council Directive 83/477/EEC as amended on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work. The existing directive as amended is fully implemented and enforced in Ireland. So, too, is the directive concerning the marketing and use of asbestos, which means that there is a ban on the marketing and use of asbestos in...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The employment rights information unit does not keep figures on the number of calls received specifically from workers. The number of phone inquiries received during 2005 was 122,283 and the figures for the previous five years are set out in the following tabular statement. Year Phone inquiries 2004 137,926 2003 148,976 2002 129,498 2001 104,632 2000 117,733
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The employment rights information unit does not keep figures on the number of e-mail queries received specifically from workers. The number of e-mail inquiries received during 2005 was 3,037 and the figures for the previous five years are set out in the following tabular statement. Year E-mail inquiries 2004 2,194 2003 5,165 2002 4,647 2001 2,073 2000 No statistics available
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The employment rights information unit does not keep figures on the number of one-to-one interviews with those who are specifically workers. The overall number of one-to-one interviews carried out during 2005 was 887 and the figures for the previous five years are set out in the following tabular statement. Year One-to-one interviews 2004 619 2003 1,280 2002 1,245 2001 No...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The current number of posts in the employment rights information unit of the Department stands at 14, broken down as follows: one higher executive officer, one executive officer and 12 clerical officers. There is currently one clerical officer vacancy. The employment rights information unit, ERIU, in addition to staffing the telephone service produces a range of materials, for example,...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to collective redundancies consolidates two previous directives in this area. The two directives concerned, namely, Council Directive 75/129/EEC of 17 February 1975 and amending Council Directive 92/56/EEC of 24 June 1992 were transposed into Irish law by means of the Protection of...
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 314, 316 and 317 together. In relation to the percentage of workers who reported suffering from work related stress in 2005 and each of the preceding five years, figures obtained from the Health and Safety Authority from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, as set out in Table 1, illness category by gender, indicate that 12,200 respondents in the quarterly...
- Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The registration of employment agreements and the maintenance of the register of such agreements is a matter for the Labour Court and one in which I have no direct function. However, I will pass the question on to the Labour Court and request it to provide the relevant information to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Employment Agencies: Employment Agencies (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: The number of employment agencies licensed under the Employment Agency Act 1971 and operating in the State at present is 507. The number of such agencies operating in the State in the last five years is set out in the following table. Year Number of Employment Agencies 2001 778 2002 597 2003 547 2004 477 2005 544
- Written Answers — Employment Agencies: Employment Agencies (4 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: As part of the Government's commitments under Sustaining Progress, in June 2005 the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment issued a White Paper on the review of the Employment Agency Act 1971. The deadline for submissions was 15 July 2005. The Department is currently finalising the heads of a Bill based on submissions received. This process should be completed by the end of June 2006...
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Order for Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 6, to delete "NON-NATIONALS" and substitute "FOREIGN NATIONALS". This arises from the debate on Committee Stage on the use of the term "non-national". Prior to 1999, the term "alien" was used consistently in immigration legislation and it continues to be used in a number of countries. In some countries the term used is non-citizen. There are a number of...
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I assure Deputy Hogan that the Minister, Deputy Martin, is entirely on board in accepting this terminology and the point was strongly made by Deputies Hogan, Howlin, Morgan and others. I dealt with the specific point raised by Deputy Morgan in my statement, in that the 2003 Act is also hereby amended to state that "foreign national" means a non-national within the meaning of the Immigration...
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, lines 16 and 17, to delete "NON-NATIONALS" and substitute "FOREIGN NATIONALS".
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, line 18, to delete "NON-NATIONALS" and substitute "FOREIGN NATIONALS".
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I move amendment No. 8: In page 5, line 23, to delete ", unless the context otherwise requires". I am advised by the parliamentary counsel that this wording is no longer necessary and, accordingly, I propose to delete it.
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I should have acknowledged that Deputy Howlin brought this to our attention.
- Employment Permits Bill 2005: Report Stage. (5 Apr 2006)
Tony Killeen: I move amendment No. 9: In page 5, line 26, to delete ""application by a non-national"" and substitute ""application by a foreign national"".