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Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Over the past twelve months, I have had discussions with the Chairmen, Chief Executives and senior executives in key companies, both indigenous and foreign direct investors, across a range of sectors. Many of the companies involved already have substantial and valuable activities in Ireland while others are considering major investments here for the first time. These discussions have...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Government have introduced a wide range of measures to combat unemployment. My Department is providing significantly increased resources to assist the unemployed and I have more than doubled the capacity of the job search supports and the number of training and work experience places for the unemployed since 2008. In the past year, to prevent unemployment I introduced the €100 million...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: My Department is investing significant resources in 2010 in the provision of training and employment programmes to address the current challenges. This year, over €1 billion will be provided in the provision of a range of labour force measures. The total number of training and work experience activation places funded by my Department will be approximately 147,000. This compares to the...

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 141 and 142 together. Ireland has consistently been regarded amongst the most competitive economies in the world for supporting enterprise. Reports such as the 'IBM Global Location Trends Annual Report 2009' that was published in October of last year ranked Ireland 1st for attracting FDI on a per capita basis. They listed our key strengths in services and R&D...

Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: With the exception of air travel and car hire, in general all travel costs - whether in respect of car mileage allowances or the use of public transport - are aggregated on my Department's accounting systems. It is not feasible, therefore, to identify separately the amount paid by my Department annually on car mileage and on rail and bus tickets. However, for the Deputy's information, the...

Written Answers — Business Regulation: Business Regulation (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: In so far as the general issue of traders advertising their services is concerned, there is no specific statutory requirement that those advertising by means of door to door leafleting must provide a business name and address. It is important, however, that consumers when contemplating entering into any commercial transactions, no matter how such transactions may have been initiated, satisfy...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (9 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The issues of job creation and retention in enterprise agency supported companies are day-to-day matters for the agencies themselves and not one in which I am directly involved. However, Shannon Development acts in a landlord capacity in the Information Age Park, Ennis (IAPE). Most of the tenants in IAPE are small firms. Shannon Development informs me that twelve new jobs were created in...

Written Answers — Commercial Rent Reviews: Commercial Rent Reviews (10 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I am not aware that any such representations have been made to me or my Department.

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (10 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Due to industrial action taken by some unions in my Department as part of the wider public service workers' campaign on pay issues, I am not in a position to provide the requested information to the Deputy at this time. Nor am I in a position to indicate when I might be able to provide the information sought.

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (10 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Dublin Airport Authority is a public limited company under the aegis of the Department of Transport. I have no function in relation to the activities of the DAA.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: It is proposed to take No. 20, Inland Fisheries Bill 2009 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 19, Road Traffic Bill 2009 - Second Stage (resumed); No. 21 - statements on the final report of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Amendment on Children, to be taken not later than 1.30 p.m. today and the order shall not resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: These are serious issues. The practices are unacceptable. The most important people to be spoken of in this House are the patients. That is why the clinical review is hugely important and it is the patient care that must be addressed and that is exactly what is happening. We all agree that we must have the facts, we cannot form a judgment unless we have all the facts of the situation. New...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: This is an independent hospital and it will have an independent investigation.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: It is also appropriate to say that it is easy for Members to personalise issues and to use opportunities like this, unpalatable as they might like to hear it from me, to use the distresses of patients for political opportunism.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: There are questions to be asked of management, of the board, of governance and questions will have to be answered.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: There are questions to be asked on governance and questions to be answered on why the service that is expected of those employed by the State was not provided for clients and their representatives, the GPs. All of that is being investigated. We will await the outcome of the investigation so we can establish the facts.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Clearly the clinical reviews are there to support patient care.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: All of the issues will be dealt with in the investigation. Once it has been completed, changes that must be made will be made and the Minister will deal with them when the full facts are available to her. Perhaps someone might have listened to one of Deputy Reilly's colleagues, the GP who was bemused about why the Minister for Health and Children has been brought into this when the...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: It is on that basis that we await the investigation so that we can deal with the facts on the floor of this House if necessary.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Issues are emerging which will be dealt with by the investigation.