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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: The Department and its Agencies are extremely diligent and careful in their management and allocation of taxpayer monies in the support of different enterprise objective. The drawdown of exchequer monies through the Enterprise Development Agencies of my Department is based on commitments made in a given year and projected draw-downs against those commitments in the year in question. It must...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: It has been the consistent policy of successive Irish Governments to promote collective bargaining through the laws of this country and through the development of an institutional framework supportive of a voluntary system of industrial relations that is premised upon freedom of contract and freedom of association. There is also an extensive range of statutory provisions designed to back up...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Bullying in the Workplace (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: Every employer has a duty under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety, health and welfare of their employees and to manage and conduct work activities in such a way so as to prevent, as far as is reasonably practicable, any improper conduct or behaviour likely to put the safety, health and welfare at work of their employees...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: My Department issued a consultation paper on the implementation of Articles 19 and 22 of the Consumer Rights Directive on 6 September 2012. Though the original deadline for responses was 12 October, it was agreed to extend it to 9 November following a number of requests from interested parties. The consultation attracted a sizeable number of responses, a number of which raised issues that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: My Department has established an informal advisory group, which includes a number of members of the Sales Law Review Group, to consider the most appropriate and effective ways of giving effect to the 124 recommendations contained in the Review Group’s report. The Department plans to issue a number of consultation papers in 2013 on the main areas for reform indicated by the Review...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Initiative (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Jobs 2012 identifies a number of key economic sectors which the Government will focus on to promote employment opportunities, including Construction.Among the key actions identified for the Construction sector is the development of a National Strategy to 2015, which will outline the opportunities, challenges and actions needed to realise the potential of the sector. Work...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 263 to 265, inclusive, together. Details of revenues raised by IDA Ireland from the sale and rent of IDA owned land and buildings; the total cost incurred by the Agency for the maintenance, security and other costs relating to the land and building managed by the Agency, and the total asset value of IDA’s property buildings in each of the years 2006 to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: As part of the Forfás Annual Employment Survey, the overall cost per job is calculated each year by reference to the cost of jobs created in companies supported by the Enterprise Development agencies, during and sustained to the end of a seven-year period. The accepted accounting measure for cost per job is ‘Cost per job sustained’. This is calculated by taking into...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (4 Dec 2012)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland has informed me that it does not compile statistics on the cost per job created on a county by county basis. The metric used to assess the cost effectiveness of its grant programmes is the cost per job sustained. This measures the level of first time jobs created during a seven year period which are existing at the end of that period against IDA Ireland grants paid during the same...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services (29 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA that they do not own any land in Kinsale but I have asked IDA to contact the individual concerned to see if they can assist him in any way.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (29 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: Trade unions are by their nature essentially self- governing bodies and it is a matter for the membership to determine whether, and in what manner, the rules and policies of a trade union should provide for how it deals with complaints about the service provided by the Union to its members. The Registrar of Friendly Societies has a number of specific powers in the area of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Corporate Enforcement (28 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: Pursuant to the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 the Director of Corporate Enforcement is independent in the performance of his statutory functions. The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) was established in 2001 and details of investigations undertaken by the Director for the period from 2001 to 2011 are contained in the Annual Reports of the ODCE. These Reports have...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (28 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: I welcomed the adoption of the Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention and Recommendation at the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organisation. The issue of ratification by Ireland of Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers is being considered in the context of our standard approach to the ratification of international instruments. Ireland does...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits (28 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: An application was received in this instance on 8 October 2012. This application was refused on 9 November 2012 on the basis that new employment permit applications are currently only considered for highly skilled, highly paid positions or for positions where there is an officially recognised scarcity of supply in relation to a particular qualification or occupation type. Applications for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Adviser Pay (28 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: The following table outlines the names and salary details of the two special advisors appointed by me as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. There are no further ministerial advisers appointed in the Department. Position Name Annual Salary Special Adviser Mr. Ciaran Conlon €127,000 Press Adviser Mr. Conor Quinn €83,337

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Appointments to State Boards (28 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: In line with Government policy to introduce greater transparency in the appointment process and in an effort to broaden the pool of suitable candidates for consideration for appointment to State Boards, my Department has, since mid 2011, requested the Public Appointments Service to seek expressions of interest from suitably qualified people for appointment to the boards of agencies under my...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: I will get the committee an account.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: Some of them would come down at rent reviews but obviously they are in the same position. The IDA is in the same bind when it comes to upward-only rent reviews. It is caught with the rents it has so whether or not it has vacant property, which inevitably occurs, it is stuck with rents until the review date. Many of them are upward-only rent reviews. It is in the same category. I do not...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: It is University College Galway, the University of Limerick and Trinity College, as I said. I will forward the details.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Richard Bruton: I have not been able to pin that down.