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Written Answers — Sale of Tobacco Products: Sale of Tobacco Products (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The Casual Trading Act, 1995 is the legislation which establishes the regime for the regulation of selling goods in public places. Section 2 (1) of the Act defines casual trading as "selling goods at a place (including a public road) to which the public have access as of right or any other place that is a casual trading area". Casual trading is regulated by the 88 local authorities who have...

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The initiatives taken by the Minister for Finance to restructure and re-capitalise the banking system is the principal response to making credit available. These initiatives are designed to secure an adequate flow of credit into the economy to support economic recovery, even as the banking system is down-sized. At the end of March 2011, a range of measures was announced to reorganise,...

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The National Competitiveness Council (NCC), which is independent of my Department, reports to me on costs and other competitiveness issues in the Irish economy through its suite of reports, including the annual benchmarking report "Ireland's Competitiveness Scorecard" and the "Costs of Doing Business in Ireland" report. The latest report on Costs of Doing Business in Ireland, published in...

Written Answers — County Enterprise Boards: County Enterprise Boards (5 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The purpose of the County and City Enterprise Boards is set out in Section 10 (1) of the Industrial Development Act 1995. Section 10 (1) specifies the following " this section applies to any body, referred to in the Schedule to this Act as a County Enterprise Board ("a Board"), established for the purpose of promoting and assisting economic development within its area of operations and...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: Entities with charitable status are governed by the Charities Act 2009. They are subject to the regulation of the Charities Regulatory Authority and answerable to their stakeholders, shareholders and funders. Many charities, typically, charities which formed themselves as companies, do so as companies limited by guarantee (CLG). Due to their public membership structure they cannot avail of...

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: Forfás currently collects and analyses data on the performance of enterprises supported by IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Shannon Development and Udarás na Gaeltachta. Forfás works with these agencies on the completion of a number of annual surveys - most notably the Forfás Annual Employment Survey and the Annual Business Survey of Economic Impact. The agencies provide Forfás with...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 302 and 304 together. These questions relate to the terms and conditions of employment of public and civil servants, which are policy matters for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is providing the data on numbers of retired civil servants in the ranges of pensions, as sought by the Deputy. I have asked the non-commercial State agencies under the aegis of my Department to provide the Deputy with the corresponding relevant data for their organisations.

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: My Department does not maintain official statistics on the number of liquidators, examiners and receivers appointed in any given year.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The Registry of Friendly Societies is an office of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation co-located with the Companies Registration Office. Both offices are entirely staffed by departmental staff and the officer warranted as the Registrar of Companies is now the same officer warranted as the Registrar of Friendly Societies. The two offices are integrated and utilise the same...

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The relationship between the enterprise development agencies and their client companies is a day-to-day operational matter for the agencies and not one in which I have a function. However I am informed by IDA Ireland that the number of itineraries by potential investors that have been hosted by them in County Dublin between 2006 and the end of 2010 is 492. The data available on site visits...

Written Answers — County and City Enterprise Boards: County and City Enterprise Boards (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The role of Dublin City Enterprise Board (DCEB) as one of the network of CEBs across the country is to provide a source of support for micro-enterprise in the start-up and expansion phases, to promote and develop indigenous micro-enterprise potential and to stimulate economic activity and entrepreneurship at local level. The Boards give priority to manufacturing and internationally traded...

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The Enterprise Ireland (EI) Mentor Network was established to help companies identify and overcome obstacles to growth and provide tailored advice, guidance and support, to help accelerate growth and build management capability. Mentors are senior executives, drawn from the private sector, with a proven track record in business. They act as a confidential sounding board, advising companies...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: In the time available since this Question was tabled my Department has not been able to collect the extensive volume of information requested by the Deputy. Once the available information is collated I will arrange for it to be forwarded to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Jobs Initiative: Jobs Initiative (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The Jobs Initiative, which the Government announced on 10 May last, was designed to restore confidence in the economy, stimulate demand, assist those who are unemployed to get back to work and support the maintenance of existing jobs and the creation of new ones. The measures outlined in the Jobs Initiative will be delivered across a number of Government Departments. With regard to my own...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: A Personal Secretary and a Clerical Officer are assigned to my constituency work on a fulltime basis. A Personal Assistant is assigned to a range of duties including constituency and non-constituency work. The relevant salary scales are: Staff Salary scale 1 Personal Assistant €43,715 - €56,060 (per annum) 1 Personal Secretary €456.50- €915.20 (per week) 1 Clerical Officer...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) carries out inspections of employer records with a view to determining compliance with employment rights legislation. These inspections arise: · in response to complaints received of alleged non-compliance with relevant employment rights legislation; · as part of NERA inspections focusing on compliance in sectors where there is an...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: My Department has recently carried out a public consultation in relation to this issue. A total of over 50 submissions were received, from interested parties, as a result of this consultation. A number of these submissions contained legal argument in relation to the issue, as well as detailed comments in respect of the draft Statutory Instrument which was published as part of the...

Written Answers — Trade Missions: Trade Missions (4 Oct 2011)

Richard Bruton: In accordance with the decision in June last, to transfer certain trade promotion functions from this Department to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, responsibility for leading Trade Missions is shared with Ministers in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In respect of the period September to December 2011, the Minister for Small Business Mr. John Perry, T.D., last month...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (29 Sep 2011)

Richard Bruton: I have been advised by the Labour Court that it has no record of any case involving the person in question. I have been advised, however, of an Employment Appeals Tribunal case in which the person was the complainant. I understand that a hearing was scheduled to take place on the 17th August 2010 but that it was withdrawn on the day. EAT procedures provide that only a claimant or their...