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Written Answers — Companies Register: Companies Register (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The State Property Acts make provision, among other things for the devolution of property of dissolved and struck off companies. This legislation is the responsibility of the Minister for Finance. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is currently at Committee Stage in the Seanad with the Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009. That Bill provides for changes in the law relating to the...

Written Answers — EU Globalisation Fund: EU Globalisation Fund (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057I refer to the answer to Question Nos. 53 and 102 of the 9th March 2010. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) applications from Ireland to date have not been made on a specific geographical basis and my Department continues to monitor redundancies nationwide in order to assess whether further applications, which must meet strict EGF Regulation criteria and conditions, can be...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057The Work Placement Programme is available for 2010 graduates. There are 2,000 places on the Work Placement Programme and half of these are available for graduates who have a full award at level 7 or higher on the National Framework of Qualifications. There are approximately 560 individuals currently participating in placements on the programme. Individuals wishing to participate in the...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the industrial development agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and therefore figures for 2010 will not be available until early 2011. Details of the number of new jobs created and lost on a county basis in respect of IDA Ireland client companies for 2009 are set out in the...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The purpose of the Regulations referred to by the Deputy is to implement the Shareholders' Rights Directive on the exercise of certain rights attaching to voting shares in relation to general meetings of listed companies. The Regulations, transposed as S.I. 316 of 2009, apply to companies whose registered office is in the State and whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the industrial development agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. The number of jobs created and lost in IDA supported companies, on a county by county basis, in each of the years 2008 and 2009 is set out in the tabular statement, together...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: In the time available it is not possible to provide the information requested.

Written Answers — Food Marketing: Food Marketing (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057Primary responsibility in relation to the marketing, promotion and labelling of food products lies with my colleagues the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries and the Minister for Health and Children and the relevant agencies operating under their auspices and I have no direct function in relation to such matters. Insofar as my own area of responsibility is concerned, the Consumer...

Written Answers — EU Globalisation Fund: EU Globalisation Fund (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The EGF application process from initiation to final decision is a lengthy procedure involving not just the European Commission but also the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. In the case of the EGF application in relation to redundant workers at the DELL plant in Co. Limerick the approval process took some six months. Strict eligibility criteria apply and there is no...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The provisions of the Community Employment Programme allow for funding by FÁS of Community Employment (CE) sponsors to employ participants and supervisors up to the last day of their 65th year, at which point the entitlement to a State Pension becomes available. Consequently, funding from FÁS for such participants ceases on their 66th birthday, in line with the aims and objectives of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Although it is not a Government-led initiative, the objectives of "Your Country Your Call" are to identify proposals which will have a significant positive economic impact on Ireland and which will help to secure sustainable employment. I view the initiative as being complementary to the work being carried out by my Department and its agencies. In this context, my Department is currently...

Written Answers — Trade Union Representation: Trade Union Representation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Section 68 of the Courts of Justice Act 1936 conferred powers on the Superior Courts Rules Committee to make rules for the practice and procedure of the courts to be applied in relation to compulsory liquidations. That rule making power was extended to voluntary liquidations by section 312 of the Companies Act 1963. I understand that the relevant Rules are found in Order 74 of the Rules of...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Shareholders' Rights (Directive 2007/36/EC) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 316 of 2009) implemented the Shareholders' Rights Directive on the exercise of certain rights attaching to voting shares in relation to general meetings of listed companies. The Regulations apply to companies whose registered office is in the State and whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market situated or...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Details of the cost of travel, associated with Saint Patrick's Day, 2010, are not yet available . I will be pleased to forward them to the Deputy in due course.

Written Answers — County Enterprise Boards: County Enterprise Boards (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The County Enterprise Boards (CEBs) have primary responsibility for the delivery of State support to the indigenous micro-enterprise sector i.e. businesses which employ 10 or less workers. The CEBs, through both financial and non-financial assistance, support the sector in the start-up and expansion phases and facilitate entrepreneurial activity at local level. There are three types of...

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: My Department is considering a number of broad policy issues relating to the recognition process for second level schools. The applications from Educate Together to establish schools at second level in County Waterford and in a number of other locations is being fully examined within the context of the relevant legal, financial and other factors. In view of the range of issues involved, it...

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 and 198 together. My Department is reconfiguring the delivery of support for teachers in light of the current resource allocation. Although the Walk Tall Support Service will no longer exist in its current guise, it is my intention that the support for substance misuse prevention be further integrated into SPHE support. It is widely acknowledged that while...

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I can inform the Deputy that all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS), or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA), where schools can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of private psychologists approved by NEPS, and NEPS will pay...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level for the coming school year is the pupil enrolment at 30 September 2009. The staffing schedule for the coming school year was recently published by my Department. The additional posts in the renewed Programme for Government enabled some improvement to be made to the staffing schedule. These...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Students currently in receipt of the BTEA or VTOS allowances and the maintenance grant will continue to be eligible for both payments for the duration of their current course provided they continue to meet the terms and conditions of the relevant grant schemes. Students progressing to a new course with effect from 2010/11 will no longer be eligible for student maintenance grants but can apply...