Results 28,181-28,200 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Written Answers — Community Enterprise Schemes: Community Enterprise Schemes (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 322: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the allocation of funding under the recently announced extension of the Enterprise Ireland community enterprise centre scheme on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4082/06]
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4151/06]
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date in 2006 with his consultations on the establishment of a joint labour committee to protect the interests of domestic workers, especially in view of evidence of exploitation of domestic workers from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4163/06]
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister indicated to me in December last that his Department had held bilateral discussions with relevant stakeholders regarding the implementation of the recommendations in the University of Limerick review. In December, the Minister of State with responsibility for labour affairs promised that the establishment of a JLC for domestic workers was being considered. Since then, there have...
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I am aware of the difficulties. What will the Minister do about it?
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I know all that.
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister will do nothing.
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: They tend to beââ
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The latter statement from the Minister is the most important one, that is, that the response should not be to exclude people because there is a definite need and a requirement for people to come, but to regulate properly. That really is the nub of my question; how are we going to regulate properly? Will the Minister indicate how it will happen in the short term? Negotiating with the social...
- Job Protection. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Domestic servants would usually come from countries other than those.
- Wage Levels. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: It is very limited.
- Wage Levels. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: He should look at the income tax take from last year.
- Wage Levels. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The income tax take, with 90,000 extra people workingââ
- Wage Levels. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: It depends on which newspaper one reads.
- Wage Levels. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Absolutely.
- Wage Levels. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That is not the argument. They are not mutually exclusive.
- Economic Competitiveness. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: This is an ard-fheis rehearsal.
- Economic Competitiveness. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Government has done very little to reduce that.
- Economic Competitiveness. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That is a sign of things to come.
- Economic Competitiveness. (7 Feb 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Central Government funds them. It provides 60%ââ