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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act, 2004 provides for the establishment of the Special Education Appeals Board to hear and determine appeals under the act. The appellant sections of the Act which have not yet been commenced are: Sections 3 (13), 4(7), 6 (1), 7(5), 10(3) (6), 11(6), 12(1a), 12(1b) and 39(5). These sections if commenced would provide for...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the issues he has raised are an operational matter for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). My Department does not keep a record of such activity. The Deputy may wish to raise these issues directly with the NCSE.

Written Answers — Employment Subsidy Scheme: Employment Subsidy Scheme (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119 to 121, inclusive, together. There are 50 companies in the Mid West Region who are receiving 651 subsidies under the First Call of the Employment Subsidy Scheme. These subsidies are supporting the retention either directly or indirectly of 3,772 employees. Specifically in relation to County Clare, 26 applications were received under the First Call of the...

Written Answers — Employment Subsidy Scheme: Employment Subsidy Scheme (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: There are currently no plans to have a third call for applications under the Employment Subsidy Scheme.

Written Answers — Task Force Report: Task Force Report (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 123 and 124 together. I made a detailed Statement to the House on 28 January on this issue, as did a number of my colleagues. An updated summary on the Government's responses to the Task Force recommendations is provided as follows. The Task Force completed an Interim Report which was presented to me by Mr Brosnan last July. Since then the Government has been...

Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: My Department and the 8 Offices of my Department are currently occupying 11 buildings within the State. With the exception of a building in Shannon occupied by the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA), none of the buildings or premises occupied by my Department and the 8 Offices of my Department is rented or leased by the Department or the Offices concerned. In general, all buildings...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The table outlines the number of staff in my Department primarily employed in pay roll, in financial management, in human resources management, in means assessment, in procurement, and in ICT Services. With regard to the Agencies under the aegis of my Department the breakdown of staff under the various categories is a day to day matter for the Agencies concerned. I have asked the Agencies to...

Written Answers — Procurement Procedures: Procurement Procedures (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Contracts awarded to individual(s) or companies for services carried out on behalf of FÁS are subject to normal public sector procurement procedures. The question of representations to FÁS by any representative of this Department on behalf of any individual(s) or companies in the context of seeking to procure services into FÁS, therefore, does not arise.

Written Answers — Companies Register: Companies Register (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The State Property Acts make provision, among other things for the devolution of property of dissolved and struck off companies. This legislation is the responsibility of the Minister for Finance. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is currently at Committee Stage in the Seanad with the Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009. That Bill provides for changes in the law relating to the...

Written Answers — EU Globalisation Fund: EU Globalisation Fund (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057I refer to the answer to Question Nos. 53 and 102 of the 9th March 2010. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) applications from Ireland to date have not been made on a specific geographical basis and my Department continues to monitor redundancies nationwide in order to assess whether further applications, which must meet strict EGF Regulation criteria and conditions, can be...

Written Answers — Work Placement Programme: Work Placement Programme (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057The Work Placement Programme is available for 2010 graduates. There are 2,000 places on the Work Placement Programme and half of these are available for graduates who have a full award at level 7 or higher on the National Framework of Qualifications. There are approximately 560 individuals currently participating in placements on the programme. Individuals wishing to participate in the...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the industrial development agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and therefore figures for 2010 will not be available until early 2011. Details of the number of new jobs created and lost on a county basis in respect of IDA Ireland client companies for 2009 are set out in the...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The purpose of the Regulations referred to by the Deputy is to implement the Shareholders' Rights Directive on the exercise of certain rights attaching to voting shares in relation to general meetings of listed companies. The Regulations, transposed as S.I. 316 of 2009, apply to companies whose registered office is in the State and whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the industrial development agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. The number of jobs created and lost in IDA supported companies, on a county by county basis, in each of the years 2008 and 2009 is set out in the tabular statement, together...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: In the time available it is not possible to provide the information requested.

Written Answers — Food Marketing: Food Marketing (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: 2057Primary responsibility in relation to the marketing, promotion and labelling of food products lies with my colleagues the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries and the Minister for Health and Children and the relevant agencies operating under their auspices and I have no direct function in relation to such matters. Insofar as my own area of responsibility is concerned, the Consumer...

Written Answers — EU Globalisation Fund: EU Globalisation Fund (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The EGF application process from initiation to final decision is a lengthy procedure involving not just the European Commission but also the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. In the case of the EGF application in relation to redundant workers at the DELL plant in Co. Limerick the approval process took some six months. Strict eligibility criteria apply and there is no...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: The provisions of the Community Employment Programme allow for funding by FÁS of Community Employment (CE) sponsors to employ participants and supervisors up to the last day of their 65th year, at which point the entitlement to a State Pension becomes available. Consequently, funding from FÁS for such participants ceases on their 66th birthday, in line with the aims and objectives of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Although it is not a Government-led initiative, the objectives of "Your Country Your Call" are to identify proposals which will have a significant positive economic impact on Ireland and which will help to secure sustainable employment. I view the initiative as being complementary to the work being carried out by my Department and its agencies. In this context, my Department is currently...

Written Answers — Trade Union Representation: Trade Union Representation (23 Mar 2010)

Mary Coughlan: Section 68 of the Courts of Justice Act 1936 conferred powers on the Superior Courts Rules Committee to make rules for the practice and procedure of the courts to be applied in relation to compulsory liquidations. That rule making power was extended to voluntary liquidations by section 312 of the Companies Act 1963. I understand that the relevant Rules are found in Order 74 of the Rules of...