Results 1,381-1,400 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan

Departmental Agencies. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: The Minister stated he would make observations.

Departmental Agencies. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: So there are enough resources.

Departmental Offices. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: That is, only a few weeks ago.

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the comments by a person (details supplied) expressing concerns that the increasing burden of regulation and compliance is threatening to suppress the entrepreneurial drive and flair that have facilitated economic growth and development; the measures he is taking to address concerns...

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: The comments the Minister is responding to are those of Mr. Seán Fitzpatrick, chairman of Anglo Irish Bank. He made the comments three weeks ago and was scathing of the difficulties emerging for small and medium sized businesses in terms of entrepreneurial flair and the business regulatory burden in Ireland. I acknowledge that the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, made a...

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: The Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ahern, can fill in the Minister. The Government was against it but it changed its mind. The Minister changed his mind a good deal with regard to regulatory burden.

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: Some 80 forms must be filled annually by medium sized companies. This is crazy and I ask that the Minister provide a timescale for when reform will be implemented.

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: The Government voted it down originally.

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: That will be a change for the Minister.

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: I omitted to welcome the new Ministers of State, Deputies Kelleher and McGuinness, to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. They join with the other members of the Cork team in the Department. I wish them well in their term of office. From what I hear, there is plenty of work to be done in terms of the Companies Consolidation and Reform Bill.

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: The reason the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Corporation plc decided to make those comments was that in 2001 the Taoiseach was briefed on better regulation for businesses. Since then we have not seen much action. The Minister has set up a high level group, which I acknowledged. The Minister for Finance did a few things in the budget in line with suggestions we have been making on this side...

Economic Competitiveness. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: So it is not an issue.

Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is proposed that the National Employment Rights Agency will be fully operational; when he will be appointing board members to the agency; the full extent of funding it will receive from his Department; when employees will first notice its presence and operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...

Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: When will the board of the National Employment Rights Authority be appointed? What funding will be available to the authority in the current year? Will FÁS trainees or apprentices on construction sites etc be included? Will they be part and parcel of NERA's remit, given the history of the haphazard training of some such employees in the past, particularly in the construction industry?

Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: No board has been established yet.

Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: What is causing the delay in setting up the board? I ask because the director general was appointed last February and usually a board is appointed quickly on an interim basis on the appointment of a director general.

Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: Why is an interim board not in place? The legislation can follow.

Employment Rights. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: I know.

Job Creation. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: In the context of the development of Greencore's sites in Mallow, what is the up-to-date situation in Carlow?

Job Creation. (4 Jul 2007)

Phil Hogan: The Minister ought to know a thing or two about Greencore.