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Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received new draft regulations from the health and safety authority to provide for improved safety conditions in the construction sector; if these new regulations have been approved by Government; when he expects same to come into operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18065/06]

Written Answers — Social Partnership: Social Partnership (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 274: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to his consultations regarding the possible establishment of a joint labour committee to protect the interests of domestic workers in the context of the social partnership talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18066/06]

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is his intention to introduce legislation to provide for the creation of a new offence of corporate manslaughter as suggested by the Law Reform Commission in October 2003 and recommended by the Commission in its recent report to which a draft Bill is appended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18067/06]

Written Answers — Consumer Strategy Report: Consumer Strategy Report (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the report of the Consumer Strategy Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18068/06]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who were made redundant during each year from 2002 to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18069/06]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created during each fiscal quarter from quarter one of 2002 to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18070/06]

Written Answers — Arms Trade: Arms Trade (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that secondary school pupils from a school (details supplied) in Co. Laois were able to set themselves up as arms dealers here and were able to broker an electro-stun gun and leg irons from their school as part of a school project; the steps he will take to bring in a system of...

Written Answers — Tax and Social Welfare Codes: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of PPS numbers issued to persons not holding Irish citizenship during each year from 2002 to date in 2006; the number of PPS numbers issued to persons not holding Irish citizenship that are currently idle, such that no activity in relation to tax or social welfare is associated with them for a period of time possibly...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (16 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 470: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reconsider the composition of the Grangegorman Development Agency membership due to there being no representation of the Dublin Institute of Technology students' union; and if in view of the commitment to partnership, she will take steps to appoint a representative of the Dublin Institute of Technology students' union;...

Competition Authority. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the practice in many market sectors of exclusive distribution contracts for specific products or product lines; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that such contracts often divide the European Single Market into sections by country or group of countries; his views on...

Competition Authority. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply and kind remarks. Ten or 15 years ago, it was normal practice for a particular company as a wholesale distributor in any member state to get the exclusive right to purchase the product from the manufacturer and be the sole sales agent into the retail trade across the territory of, for example, the Republic of Ireland. Consequently, all retailers were buying...

Competition Authority. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply and I will happily give him the individual details. They may be of interest to his colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, because the company is based in a town in County Clare. The practice is widespread and has been for decades. This was the way business was traditionally done. The arrival of big multiples in this sector, such as those I...

Public Holidays. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland has fewer public holidays than the majority of EU member states; if he intends to introduce two additional public holidays to bring Ireland up to at least the EU average; if he intends to follow through on the undertaking to introduce an additional public holiday in...

Public Holidays. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister of State for his salutary greeting. However, I am confused by his response. If I teed up a good news story, he missed the ball big time with a swipe that was way off the mark. Irish workers work harder, longer and more productively than any of their counterparts in the EU, as numerous figures and data show. They are entitled to the same level of time off as others in the...

Public Holidays. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The last time a public holiday was granted in this country, it was decided between Labour and Fianna Fáil in the context of a partnership for Government. There was no partnership other than the two political parties involved. The Minister of State should not try to shove this onto the social partners in Dublin Castle. This is a political choice which the Government can make. It is fair...

Public Holidays. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: If the Minister of State is depending on IBEC to give people a day off, he can forget it.

Oil Prices. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply and I hope he did not think I was inviting the current Government to micro-manage anything. It is not capable of managing its present job. I will turn to macroeconomic management and offer two options which are not subject to international factors, over which the Government has no control. There are two issues of considerable concern currently. The first is...

Oil Prices. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: It could be enforced.

Oil Prices. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: It can be enforced.

Oil Prices. (17 May 2006)

Ruairi Quinn: The Minister is dodging the question.