Results 46,461-46,480 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Business Regulation. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: As regards responding to the European Council's invitation to member states to set national targets, an appropriate target will be set for Ireland â we are considered to be relatively lightly regulated â after full consultation with Departments and agencies. I intend to bring that part before the Government.
- Business Regulation. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: I did not catch that last part.
- Business Regulation. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: I stated that during the previous Question Time some weeks ago. The Deputy did not hear it then, nor did he hear it now. I have made clear the way I am proceeding.
- Business Regulation. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: Yes. Due to the imposition in terms of staffing and costs, the route we are taking is more realistic and effective. The EU invited member states to have targets by 2008 and we will have begun a realistic and informed process to that effect. Anyone can set a target, but achieving the target is the key issue.
- Business Regulation. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: The audit exemption threshold, on which I took a decision last year, is estimated to save businesses between â¬10 million and â¬20 million. Research is ongoing in that respect. Through simplifying the process by which companies recover redundancy payments, we have effected a saving of approximately â¬1.2 million to the companies concerned. That is a global figure. Where there are clear...
- Business Regulation. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: Within the next two months.
- Live Register. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: The total number of people recorded on the live register for October is 157,449. This is a significant decrease in the numbers recorded in the previous four months of 2007. It also equals the average numbers recorded on the live register for the year in 2005 and 2006. Employment has increased by 247,300 in a three year period since 2004 and the number in employment is 2,140,900. The live...
- Live Register. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: I have given the statistics to show that the rate has fallen since this time last year. The key point is that FÃS undertakes activation measures. After three months, FÃS and the Department of Social and Family Affairs meet everybody who is on the register and offer them a variety of programmes for reorientation, training or opportunities. The macro and microeconomies are not separate....
- Live Register. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy mentioned people who feel displaced and one begins to feel displaced and alienated from the labour force if one is out of employment for longer than 12 months. That remains a key sector for activation. Our Department works with FÃS in an interdepartmental group with the Department of Social and Family Affairs to activate a significant cohort of the live register who are not...
- Live Register. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy should inform himself better because we are at the coalface when people are made redundant. FÃS goes straight in.
- Live Register. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: That is the activation programme with the live register. When Waterford Glass closed in Dungarvan and over 200 workers were made redundant, we were in there immediately with the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and FÃS. Only approximately 20 are still out of work. A couple of hundred jobs were lost in Motorola and the three agencies went in as quickly as they could, past management and the company...
- Live Register. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: We have a programme under the aegis of FÃS to deal with redundancies anywhere in the economy.
- Skills Olympics. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: I understand that WorldSkills Council Ireland manages the selection, training and participation of Ireland's team for the WorldSkills competition. The council is chaired by the Department of Education and Science and is representative of the various partners in vocational education and training, including the Department of Education and Science, FÃS, the institutes of technology, the Dublin...
- Skills Olympics. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: FÃS is a contributing partner to this event and I take a different approach to this matter than the Deputy. I have been familiar with the Skill Olympics since my time in the Department of Education and Science and I know that the staff of the colleges do not have to partake in it. It is a labour of love for many of the personnel of our institutes of technology and we should celebrate and...
- Skills Olympics. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: Activity levels increased on this occasion.
- Skills Olympics. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: I do not know who are the hangers-on to whom the Deputy refers.
- Skills Olympics. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy put the question and is labelling these people hangers-on; I am not describing anyone as a hanger-on.
- Skills Olympics. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: We are in the business of trying to inform and question and I suggest the Deputy should talk to the people who organised our participation in this event. He can come back to me if his perspective on this matter has not changed.
- Industrial Development. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: Under the Industrial Development Act 1986, as amended by the Acts of 1993 and 1995, IDA Ireland has the power to acquire, hold and dispose of land and any other property or any interest therein for the purpose of facilitating an industrial undertaking. Accordingly, the management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio is a day-to-day operational matter for the agency, as part of the...
- Industrial Development. (28 Nov 2007)
Micheál Martin: Where it makes sense in local environments, we work with IDA Ireland to make a site available for an enterprise centre, for example, or for indigenous enterprise as opposed to foreign direct investment. Some 41% of properties are vacant but this percentage relates to a much smaller total than was the case previously. In 1998, there were 613 buildings in the IDA Ireland portfolio, but this...