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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I welcome our guests and thank them for their work. I take the opportunity to welcome SOLAS as well and comment briefly on the work it has been doing, which is quite impressive. The one criticism I have is that the organisation is hiding its light under a bushel and many people do not know what it does. I think SOLAS is responsible for local training initiatives, LTIs, across the country....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: Okay, I thank the CLRG. I am interested in Professor Lynch Fannon's point that the preferential status of revenue was changed in some European countries. She said that has been rolled back. Maybe she could expand on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I thank Professor Lynch Fannon. Mr. Hurley mentioned the social fund in this presentation. Bearing in mind what Professor Lynch Fannon said, am I right in saying the social fund would be, in some way or other, seen as a fallback? I think I heard mention of a €300 million impact on Ireland. Will Mr. Hurley expand on his thinking on that for a moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: It was €30 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: Is there a risk that, if such a fund were to exist in Ireland and were to be used in a similar way as it is used in France, it would become a kind of "Get out of jail free" card for companies, employers and people who find themselves in insolvency situations as they would know that there is fallback position in which the State and the taxpayer would pick up the tab?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: The second page of Eurofound's presentation refers to a European Commission implementation report from 2011 and notes that "Ireland opts for an eighteen month reference period for outstanding pay claims where a number of member states opt for a six month reference period." It refers to the "effect of limiting the minimum pay out to eight weeks [...] where in other countries it is a twelve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I will come back to SOLAS for a moment. With respect to its work with people who have lost their jobs for various reasons, including insolvency, what kind of take-up is there for SOLAS's retraining initiatives and so on? On the outcomes, does SOLAS keep track of the number of people who got employment as a result of such initiatives? I am talking about people who lost their jobs, went to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: Both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: They should come back to us with an answer at another time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: It is useful to know how many people benefited and where they ended up afterwards. They may have ended up in better employment than they had previously and now have higher wages, better conditions and so forth. That kind of detail is interesting.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (31 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Irish-Canadian relations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (31 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the ongoing situation in Haiti; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Dogs (31 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the role that An Garda Síochána has in the enforcement of legislation controlling dangerous dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Electricity Generation (31 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 775. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 662 of 24 January 2023, the exact number of solar PV system installations in receipt of a TAMS grant which have, to date, been inspected by staff from his Department to ensure that the work carried out has met the minimum requirements of his Department’s specifications; the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: One of the biggest and best resourced IDA sites in the country, in Ballyadam in east Cork, has been locked up for the past 15 years. Provision of thousands of houses in Midleton is at risk because of the very busy and totally inadequate N25 between Carrigtwohill and Midleton. When will the Minister give the go-ahead to Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and Cork County Council to carry...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (26 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response with respect to the fact that local authorities can apply to the Department for more funding to appoint more full-time vacant homes officers. I stress the word "full-time", that they do not do any other job but that, and that would be a condition of this. In the past, I was told they had ten other jobs and this was the bottom of the list. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (26 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Has he any idea of how many vacant homes there are per county? Some work has been done in this regard in County Cork. Does the Minister of State agree that having one full-time vacant homes officer in each county is a good thing? For a county the size of Cork, though, does he also agree with its chief executive's recent statement that one...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (26 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the overall amount available in 2022 and 2023 for the vacant properties refurbishment grant as part of the Croí Cónaithe towns fund; the amount made available for each local authority; the amount drawn down to date by each local authority; the number of applications per local authority completed; the further number...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourist Accommodation (26 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the incentives, if any, in place to encourage the provision of tourist accommodation in areas where a lack of such accommodation is evident; if she will carry out an audit of such accommodation needs nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2852/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourist Accommodation (26 Jan 2023)

David Stanton: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has carried out, or would consider carrying out, a review of hotel and other tourist accommodation provision and availability across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2851/23]