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Written Answers — Business Regulations: Business Regulations (6 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: During 2006, PriceWaterhouse Coopers were contracted to carry out a pilot study using the Standard Cost Model (SCM). This pilot project sought to carry out a full measurement of the administrative burdens caused by two specified 'Information Obligations' ie the Annual Return to the Companies Registration Office (CRO); and the requirement on retailers to provide unit-priced labelling on...

Written Answers — National Conference Centre: National Conference Centre (6 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: Under the Industrial Development Acts, the property function is vested in IDA Ireland. Enterprise Ireland has no role in property development. I have made enquiries from IDA and I have been informed that as far as the Agency is aware it did not have any involvement with this project.

Written Answers — Video Conferencing Facilities: Video Conferencing Facilities (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: Successful video conferencing is dependent on having high bandwidth links available between buildings together with supporting infrastructure. My Department has recently installed a high speed data network and is currently investing in infrastructural improvements which will support video conferencing. It is intended to introduce video conferencing on a pilot basis in 2008, and extend it...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: 218 staff in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment are availing of the Travel Pass Scheme in 2007.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 173 together. The information sought by the Deputy is not normally available in my Department because waste generated by the Department is collected and disposed of by a number of private companies. Based on information supplied by those companies, my Department has generated the amounts of waste specified in Column 2 below in the years 2005, 2006...

Budget Statement 2008 (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: Exports are up.

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for lifelong learning.

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: Is the Deputy saying that we are an unemployment black spot?

Competitiveness of the Economy: Motion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: Like the groceries order.

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 330 and 331 together. The Forfás Annual Employment Survey records jobs gained and lost in companies supported by the Industrial Development Agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level only. Data in relation to 2007 will not be available until mid 2008. The number of jobs created in IDA supported companies in each...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 332 and 333 together. The Forfás Annual Employment Survey records jobs gained and lost in companies supported by the Industrial Development Agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level only. Data in relation to 2007 will not be available until mid 2008. The number of jobs created in Enterprise Ireland supported...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: The establishment of the thirty-five County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) pre-dated the development of the National Spatial Strategy. The CEBs were set up in 1993 to provide support for micro-enterprises in the start-up and expansion phases, to promote and develop indigenous micro-enterprise potential and to stimulate economic activity and entrepreneurship at locallevel. As the...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: The establishment of the thirty-five County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) pre-dated the development of the National Spatial Strategy. The CEBs were set up in 1993 to provide support for micro-enterprises 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. As the...

Written Answers — Departmental Publications: Departmental Publications (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: My Department published our Annual Report for 2006 in April this year. The Report is available on my Department's website at www.entemp.ie.

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 337 and 339 together. The opening hours of my Department are 9.15 am to 5.30 pm on Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and 9.15 am to 5.15 pm on Fridays. The phone lines of my Department are open during the same periods and remain open for a further 15 minutes each evening. The phone lines and the Department do not close for lunch. Within the Department itself...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: The following is the information requested by the Deputy: Name of Form Can form be downloaded? Can form be completed on-line? Complaint Form under our Quality Customer Service Charter Yes Yes The Freedom of Information Request Form Yes Yes The National Employment Rights Authority of my Department (NERA) has only one form on which clients can set out matters that they want investigated....

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: The issue of the opening hours for the public offices and telephone lines of the Agencies and Bodies is a day to day administration matter for the Agencies and Bodies concerned and is an area in which I have no function.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. CE helps unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (4 Dec 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 343 and 344 together. Under the Industrial Development Acts, IDA Ireland was established as an autonomous agency with responsibility for the attraction and development of foreign direct investment in this country. In exercising its statutory functions there are many day-to-day operational matters undertaken by the Agency in which the Minister of the day has...