Results 11,401-11,420 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: About what?
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: That matter is being investigated within the Department.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Yes.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The Taoiseach indicated in a response yesterday that any organisation set up arising from legislation passed in this House should have due regard to the elected people of this House and respond to them.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: That should be the situation. If there is a parliamentary request for information from an organisation, the expectation is that the organisation will give a proper response to the person.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: My Department has not incurred any costs associated with the design, production, delivery etc of leaflets by my constituency office or by the constituency offices of the Ministers of State at my Department or by the constituency offices of any of our predecessors in 2007, 2008 or to date in 2009.
- Written Answers — Ministerial Travel: Ministerial Travel (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The total cost related to foreign travel undertaken by all Ministers and Ministers of State at my Department from January 2007 to the end of September 2009 was as follows: 2007: â¬146,980.61 2008: â¬184,369.39 2009 (to end-Sept.): â¬43,907.26 These figures include all identifiable costs related to flights, accommodation, subsistence, travel and other incidental costs which were paid...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Over the five-year period, 2004 to 2008, IDA Ireland paid out a total of â¬391,008,000 in grants to its client companies. Details of these payments are set out in the attached tabular statement.
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains in companies that are supported by Enterprise Ireland. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. Figures for 2009 will not be available until early 2010. The number of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland supported companies in Waterford in each of the 5 year period 2004 â 2008 are shown on the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Enterprise Ireland offers a comprehensive range of services, including both financial and non-financial supports, to companies with a business strategy that encompasses the elements required for business success. Enterprise Ireland provides a wide variety of supports and development programmes to client companies, including the Community Enterprise Centre scheme, Centres of Excellence, the...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Over the five-year period, 2004 to 2008, IDA Ireland paid out a total of â¬21.5m in grants to its client companies in Co. Waterford. Details of these payments, on a year-by-year basis, are set out in the attached tabular statement. Table Showing IDA Grant Payments to client companies in Waterford in each of the years 2004 â 2008 Year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Amount â¬1,554,000...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains in companies that are supported by Enterprise Ireland. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. Figures for 2009 will not be available until early 2010. The numbers of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland supported companies in each year of the 5 year period 2004-2008 are shown in the tabular...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Enterprise Ireland offers a comprehensive range of services, including both financial and non-financial supports, to companies with a business strategy that encompasses the elements required for business success. Enterprise Ireland provides a wide variety of supports and development programmes to client companies, including the Community Enterprise Centre scheme, Centres of Excellence, the...
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains in companies that are supported by IDA Ireland. Data are compiled on an annualised basis and are aggregated at county level. Over the five-year period, 2004 to 2008, a total of 53,679 new jobs were created in IDA supported companies. The number of jobs created in each of those years is shown in the tabular statement.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: During 2008 staff of my Department availed of 17 days paid trade union leave. The trade union leave arrangements in place in my Department are in accordance with Department of Finance Circular 14/1980 â "Facilities for non full-time representatives of staff associations/unions".
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: FÃS has informed me that in September 2007 it awarded a number of contracts under the union learning networks programme. That support was provided under the Strategic Alliances Initiative for projects to train low-skilled workers and to promote life-long learning. This is in line with the provisions of Towards 2016. These projects provide for the development of a regional infrastructure...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: Three Civil Servants were dismissed from my Department in the last five years for misconduct. All 3 were dismissed during 2009. Confidentiality concerns preclude me from giving details of the grades of the individuals involved.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 111 together. The 3% figure quoted by the Deputy is the result of annual reviews undertaken by managers with almost 1,000 staff in the Department and its offices under the Performance Management Development System, PMDS. The PMDS system does not impose any ideal or targeted distribution of ratings. My Department's priority is to ensure that PMDS is...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The Organisational Review Programme, ORP, process is essentially a review mechanism to allow the Government to assess how Departments and Offices of State are performing in terms of capacity to deliver Government policy and service delivery generally. The first phase of the ORP process was launched in 2007 with a review of three Departments, including my Department. Indeed, it was a sign of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Payments: Departmental Payments (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Coughlan: The application of the 15-day payment period requirement to local authorities and the health and education sectors remains under review. Organisations within the sector are committed to meeting their current payment periods. Suppliers experiencing difficulties in securing timely payments should, in the first instance, contact the relevant section of the organisation with which the contract...