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Order of Business. (29 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I was quoting the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin.

Written Answers — Manufacturing Industry: Manufacturing Industry (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 685: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he intends to take to deal with the continuing serious level of job losses in the manufacturing industry; his views on the rate of job losses in the traditional manufacturing sector; the steps which are being taken to provide replacement jobs in these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25670/05]

Written Answers — Shannon Development: Shannon Development (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his proposals announced on 28 July 2005 for a revised mandate for Shannon Development; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns expressed by trade unions and business interests in the area regarding the implications for the area of these changes; the number of jobs expected to be lost at...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Question 966: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has fallen short of the requirements for naturalisation; if his Department received the confirmation which it sought from this person regarding reckonable residence in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24934/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to move the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following specific and important matter of public interest requiring urgent attention, namely, the serious implications for labour relations and the future of social partnership as well as the future of the maritime sector of the plan by Irish Ferries to seek the redundancy of 543 Irish staff with a view to replacing them with lower...

Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I want to raise what has become a hardy annual, namely, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill, which is scheduled to go to committee since 1999. Only the ground rent Bill is longer awaiting passage in the House. I ask the Taoiseach for clarification on this matter because, in the last session, Members of the Government gave two contradictory views, namely, that they were not continuing with the...

Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I want clarity in the matter.

Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: We are too rich.

Grocery Industry. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: What is dominance——

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: On a point of order, I gave notice to the office of the Ceann Comhairle regarding the ruling out of a question tabled today. This question on general insurance was transferred to the Department of Transport, which does not have responsibility for the matter. The General Office advised me that it is a matter for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment who, amazingly, transferred a...

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: A question on general insurance was transferred to the Department of Transport.

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Now it is a matter of putting down the correct question. Is the Minister saying I did not ask the right question?

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: The question is quite clear. It concerns the huge profits for the insurance sector. I have asked the Minister——

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister saw it. He transferred it to the Minister for Transport. I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle what he will do about this matter as we begin a new Dáil session.

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: It is quite clear that the Department of Transport cannot answer this question.

Employment Conditions. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: Can a question be killed off by moving it to a Department to which the question is not relevant? It is extraordinary.

Industrial Disputes. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister for the fairly comprehensive response. First, will he indicate if he has worked out the exact statutory entitlement of each Gama worker so that when he hears from Finansbank in due course, he will be able to validate that each of them has received the full entitlement? Second, have the tendering procedures that allowed this breach of law to occur been tightened up...

Industrial Disputes. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: With full compliance with our labour law as part of the contract.

Industrial Disputes. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: To how many?

Community Employment Schemes. (28 Sep 2005)

Brendan Howlin: What is the Minister's attitude to community employment? Does he regard it as a valuable and important scheme that is no longer primarily for work experience and training as originally envisaged when Deputy Quinn established it at a time of high unemployment, but to undertake valuable community work that would otherwise not be done? If that is the case, does the Minister believe it is time he...