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National Minimum Wage. (10 Feb 2004)

Eamon Ryan: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage level of compliance reported by the Labour inspectorate of minimum wage regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3810/04]

National Minimum Wage. (10 Feb 2004)

Eamon Ryan: It will not be a surprise to anyone who watched the recent RTE television programme, which is highly commendable, that the hotel, bar and restaurant sectors are mentioned in this regard. In that programme a young man worked for low wages in various establishments and reported to the public on his experiences. It was shocking to note that his wage slip for a week's work following various...

National Minimum Wage. (10 Feb 2004)

Eamon Ryan: If I am reading the regulations correctly, I note it is an offence for an employee to provide incorrect details of his or her working hours. It is of particular concern that the detail and reporting of the working conditions of migrant workers could be easily amended to suit the legislation, when they might not be earning the €7 per hour minimum wage, apropos of what happened in the case of...

National Minimum Wage. (10 Feb 2004)

Eamon Ryan: Clearly, the Minister of State has evidence in regard to the industry to which he referred, otherwise he would not have mentioned it. Has an investigation of that industry led to any of the convictions to which he referred?

Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister told us she did not intend to proceed with it.

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: I am nervous following a speaker who has had such experience of various Dáil committee investigations in the past, and facing a Minister with an extensive legal background. As someone who has been a Member of the Oireachtas for only two years, I am a little shy about speaking on such weighty issues as to how we should investigate the affairs of State. I will attempt to do my best, however,...

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: It is a system which allows, to a certain extent, leaders of the Opposition parties to make the occasional point or raise an issue on the Order of Business but if a backbencher has a serious concern it is almost impossible to determine where it can be raised during the day. It is almost impossible to raise it on the Order of Business. In my experience from my time in this House, there is...

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: Perhaps the Minister will let me explain. I tabled a question to the Minister for Transport to ask when the Government decided, as reported in the newspapers, to proceed with this project and I received a letter from the Minister for Transport stating that it is not his responsibility but that of the National Roads Authority. In other words, it is not a Government responsibility, which I find...

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: Yes. Given that we already have the facilities——

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: I remember as an illegal immigrant in the United States when working nights in restaurants, one of the sad joys I had during the day was watching Congressional meetings as the minutiae of US society was investigated. It was a hugely educational and entertaining pastime. Maybe I am a political trainspotter in enjoying it but a significant number of Irish people would relish a similar service....

Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with Deputy Rabbitte's earlier argument. If there is a concern about this Bill, it is about the initiation process of a commission inquiry. The Bill as currently arranged is coming from the Government with the approval of the Minister for Finance and that is of incredible significance in that ultimately like so much else in the running of our society it is the Minister for Finance who...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: As our party's leader said, carbon emissions and Ireland's failure to meet its Kyoto obligations is one of the most serious areas in which Deputy Cullen has failed to deliver on what is required from a Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The climate change problems include some of the biggest issues facing this country and the world. In reality, the only thing that...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: It is in the Minister's submission to the Department of Finance, if he would care to look at it. The Minister, in his early days in office famously appeared not to know, on RTE radio, the difference between the problems of the hole in the ozone layer and issues surrounding climate change strategy. I do not know whether he knows the difference now, but I do not think this matters because he...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: At least the Minister turned up tonight — he did not turn up for our last Private Members' debate.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Eamon Ryan: What about Fianna Fáil and its fascist friends?

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Eamon Ryan: And no constitutional amendment; it is futile.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage. (21 Apr 2004)

Eamon Ryan: It is a masterstroke.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Eamon Ryan: It is clear we have a problem with immigration. That there is also a problem with maternity services in Dublin is quite evident to anyone who has attended these hospitals in recent times. Are we correctly addressingthese problems through this constitutional amendment? It was interesting to hear on radio this morning discussions involving representatives from the hospitals and asylum seekers....

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Eamon Ryan: That is a problem that needs to be dealt with, but it is not being dealt with in this Bill. If there is a problem in Dublin hospitals, that is part of the cause. One of the masters of the maternity hospitals — I cannot remember which one — was asked on the radio this morning what the problem was and he stated strongly that it was a problem of resources. To anyone who has been in those...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Eamon Ryan: If one checks the numbers for the previous year one can make a rough estimate of the numbers this year. It is certain we are not catering for the demand at present. That is an issue that is not being addressed in this debate or by the Government. There is a concern about what the Minister has called citizenship tourism. However, the figures are starting to show clearly that this problem was...