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Written Answers — Employment Regulation Orders: Employment Regulation Orders (31 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: The wages and employment conditions of workers employed in the hotel and restaurant business are in most instances governed by employment regulation orders made pursuant to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Acts 1946 to 2004. The hotels employment regulation order applies to workers employed in hotels anywhere throughout the State except the County Borough of Cork and areas known...

Written Answers — Employment Regulation Orders: Employment Regulation Orders (31 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: Wages and employment conditions of workers employed in the catering industry are governed by two catering employment regulation orders, one of which covers workers employed in catering establishments in the areas known until 1 January 1994 as the County Borough of Dublin and the Borough of Dún Laoghaire, and the other employment regulation order which covers catering establishments outside...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (31 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: The system of industrial relations in Ireland is essentially voluntary in nature. The State has established a number of institutions to assist in the resolution of trade disputes between employers and workers, including the Employment Appeals Tribunal. I understand that the person referred to in the question has lodged a claim with the Employment Appeals Tribunal. The tribunal is an...

EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed). (26 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: I did.

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: As I indicated in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 311 on 9 March 2005, Council Directive 96/82/EC — the Seveso directive — which was transposed into Irish law through the European Communities (Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 476 of 2000), requires, under Article 12, that the objectives of preventing major accidents and...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: Under the Redundancy Payments (Lump Sum) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 695 of 2004), which increased the weekly pay ceiling for calculating statutory redundancy to €600 from €507.90, the critical date for determining whether the higher ceiling should apply in any particular case is the date on which notification of redundancy was issued. In the case of the employee concerned, the date of...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: My Department recently received the draft text of regulations from the Health and Safety Authority, which are designed to transpose Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, as amended by Directive 2003/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. This is more generally known as the Seveso 2 directive. The new regulations will...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: There was understandable upset at this tragic accident at Mulranny, County Mayo, where this young woman was killed in December 2004. I have replied to parliamentary questions on the accident and I have received a number of representations from the family concerned and from elected representatives. Following the accident, the Health and Safety Authority made inquiries and concluded that,...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 740 and 743 together. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Chemicals Agents) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 619 of 2001) deal with protecting workers from the risks related to chemical agents at work. The regulations serve to ensure a workplace using chemical agents must have an associated risk assessment performed, outlining the prevention and protection...

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: Government policy on indefinite duration contracts is dictated by the Protection of Employee (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003. The Act provides that a fixed-term contract employee shall not be treated less favourably than a comparable permanent employee in respect of conditions of employment including pay and pensions. To invoke the anti-discrimination provisions in the Act, the fixed-term employee...

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: The system of industrial relations in Ireland is essentially voluntary in nature. The State has established a number of institutions to assist in the resolution of trade disputes between employers and workers. These institutions are the Labour Relations Commission, the Rights Commissioner Service and the Labour Court. The Labour Relations Commission's conciliation service is a voluntary...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 752 and 753 together. Section 13(1)(c) of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires an employee, while at work, "if reasonably required by his or her employer", to submit to any "appropriate, reasonable and proportionate tests for intoxicants by, or under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner who is a competent person, as may be...

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: In August 2004, my predecessor, Deputy Fahey, established a widely representative expert advisory group on workplace bullying, the terms of reference of which were to advise and report on the effectiveness of measures relating to the prevention of workplace bullying, the identification of improvements in procedures and how to address the contribution made by bullying to the incidence of...

Seanad: Employment Issues: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: I wish to speak in support of the amendment to the motion proposed by Senator Leyden. In so doing, I am sure the House will agree that no Government has been more committed to the social partnership process than this one and the previous one, led by the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern. No other Government has been prepared to utilise social partnership to the maximum in seeking to advance the...

Seanad: Employment Issues: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: I would have liked to respond to some points but if the Members do not wish me to do so that is fine.

Seanad: Employment Issues: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Tony Killeen: It is €7.65.

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (15 Dec 2005)

Tony Killeen: On 12 December 2002, following the announcement of the closure of the Comerama factory with a loss of over 160 jobs, the Tánaiste, together with officials of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment, met a SIPTU delegation representing the Comerama workers. From the official minutes of that meeting, it appears that the main concern of the workers, many, if not most, of whom had...

Written Answers — Employment Legislation: Employment Legislation (15 Dec 2005)

Tony Killeen: Traditionally, the upper age limit for eligibility for redundancy payment was the same as pensionable age within the meaning of the Social Welfare Acts. In 1971 the upper age limit was 70, in line with the then old age pension age of 70. That was revised downwards by the Redundancy Payments Act 1979 to 66 years, which was the new pensionable age set out in the Social Welfare Act. The...

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (15 Dec 2005)

Tony Killeen: I have no direct role in the resolution of this or other similar disputes. I understand that the Deputy's concerns are regarding the reorganisation proposals, where the company has announced that 35 full-time positions will be affected from January 2006. From then, work will be available on a seasonal basis for those staff. It has been reported that the company's proposals could result in a...

Hospital Accommodation. (15 Dec 2005)

Tony Killeen: I will be taking the Adjournment on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. I thank Deputy O'Dowd for raising this matter as it provides an opportunity to outline to the House the position with regard to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be...