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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: It seems the Opposition has abandoned the Dáil, which is strange. When we were in opposition, we never gave up and always had someone here. That is another story. With respect to Powering Prosperity, does he agree that it depends on infrastructure and on having ports with planning permission that are able to expand? That needs money. For example, the Port of Cork needs to expand...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Powering Prosperity is a fantastic policy document and I commended the Minister on it when he was before the Oireachtas committee last week, as well as the people who put it together. However, it is going to be diluted unless the port infrastructure is expanded. Without having a place to do a thing, you cannot do the thing. We cannot assemble the turbines, maintain them or service them if...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for that positive response and encourage him to continue in that vein. Is he aware of the potential for the shared island fund to be used in conjunction with Cork and Belfast to maximise the development of infrastructure? Will he commit to going to the Department of the Taoiseach to support that initiative in order to maximise Powering Prosperity? This is what...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 330 of 21 May 2024 and 95 of 29 May 2024, and Topical Issue No. 4 of 2 July 2024, if she is aware of the situation pertaining to a school (details supplied); if she has decided to offer any support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30281/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: The Minister and I have had a number of discussions about Fermoy Educate Together National School. I visited the place and am sorry to bring it up again, but I am very concerned about the cramped conditions in the school. I am asking the Minister what progress has been made since I brought it up last. Have the officials in the Department examined this matter? Have they looked at possible...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response and her interest in this matter. Does she agree that things have moved on in the interim? Does she also agree that because of the popularity of the school, the professionalism of the teachers and the desire of more and more parents to send their children there, numbers are growing and that there is a need to look again at the agreement that was arrived...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I appreciate that and agree with the Minister there was an agreement, but I also believe, and she might also, that things have moved on now and parental choice is coming in here in a big way. There is a big demand in the area for this particular school as it is a very successful and popular school. I again put it to the Minister that there is an interim solution available. The Department...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Of course.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Does the Tánaiste agree with me that many farmers are facing fodder shortages in the coming winter? Does he further agree with me that there is now a need to introduce a fodder production incentive scheme to encourage and support farmers to sow forage crops on their land, as happened in 2018?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I welcome everybody to the meeting. This is a very interesting conversation. I ask Mr. Redmond about the following from Mr. McDonnell's written submission: We must also recognise that it has become government policy in recent years to pass more of the burden of the “social wage” to employers via the higher minimum wage, domestic violence leave, statutory sick pay, etc. This...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I have met a number of relatively small business owners and they all feel the same pressure coming on them from these measures. They are good measures. I am not saying they should not be introduced and have yet to meet an employer who says that, but they are bringing on extra costs. This is in the context of another change coming down the tracks with this particular one. We have three...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: What number is that roughly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Is it 45% of the 15,000 mentioned earlier?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: A number of reasons have been mentioned by ISME, the first being the extra cost. It has been said that if somebody does a job and an older person does the same job, then the productivity is equal and they should be paid the same. That argument has been made and I do not see why it should not be the case. They have the same productivity and make the same profit for the company. The next...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Of course, it could also be argued that another staff member's time being used to train a new person is time that worker is not producing work for the company, so there is a double-whammy there. Did Mr. McDonnell want to come in on those issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Mr. McDonnell mentioned students and seasonal work. Does ISME have any quantification of how many of the 15,000 we spoke about earlier are students who come in during the summer time and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Is that in line with the ESRI's figures of 80% comprising students?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Will Dr. Redmond comment on the seasonality of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Of the 15,000, therefore, roughly 12,000 are students.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sub-Minimum Rates of the National Mininimum Wage: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Of the 80% who also work in accommodation or retail, is that about the same number?