Results 1,641-1,660 of 19,032 for speaker:Ruairi Quinn
- Redundancy Payments. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I take it from the Minister's reply that he is not disputing my facts. The jobs were sold and the employees were not made redundant. The compensation element of the redundancy package â the 60% of the cost of buying out the Irish Ferries workers â was paid for by the rest of us. The Minister claims he received legal advice, presumably from the Attorney General. I invite the Minister...
- Redundancy Payments. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The jobs were sold under duress.
- Redundancy Payments. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Up to 100,000 people marched on the streets of Dublin because of it.
- Redundancy Payments. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Ten-nil to Irish Ferries.
- Economic Competitiveness. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I am devastated and surprised.
- Economic Competitiveness. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The problem is indirect service charges.
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the decentralisation programme for his Department's agencies; the number of staff who have decentralised from a Dublin office to an office outside the greater Dublin area; the number of staff required to decentralise under his Department's agencies' plans; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his reply. When I asked this question on 10 October 2006, I was told a total of only two people from the aforementioned four bodies had decentralised. If I understand correctly the Minister's comprehensive reply in respect of the Health and Safety Authority, the original figure of 12 people who had moved to Kilkenny has increased to 15. Am I correct in deducing...
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: That is the 917 staff.
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: My question refers to the agencies.
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Will the Minister confirm that people in any of the specialist agencies, who are not civil servants, will not be forced to decentralise if they do not wish to? This was not envisaged at the time when Mr. McCreevy introduced the raid on decentralisation through the budget process. What is the Minister's view on what the implications will be for the loss of institutional memory and expertise...
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: No we did not. Those were mostly civil servants.
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: They were civil servants.
- Decentralisation Programme. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Is it voluntary?
- Job Creation. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Is anyone against the development?
- Job Losses. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Is that an explanation for the mystery?
- Job Losses. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: The Government facilitated the retreat.
- Job Losses. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: Extend land labour laws to European seas.
- Job Losses. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: It should be European-wide.
- Job Losses. (31 Jan 2007)
Ruairi Quinn: A more robust interpretation of the law would have established the answer.