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Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: A holder of a Green Card who previously held a work authorization / work visa issued by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform may in certain circumstances change employer within 12 months of issue of a Green Card. This position has been conveyed to the applicant.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (6 Nov 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 open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that a green card application was received in respect of the above named person. The permit was refused and the applicant subsequently lodged an appeal of the decision. The appeal was successful and a Green Card Permit has now been issued.

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: State support for enterprise and job creation is channelled through the industrial development agencies. While I may give general policy directives to the development agencies, I am precluded under the Industrial Development Acts from giving directives regarding individual industrial undertakings, or from giving preference to one area over others. Through its range of overseas offices, IDA...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: FÁS offers a comprehensive menu of vocational training and employment supports for people with disabilities, consistent with current mainstreaming policy. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply for training and the appropriate supports are put in place to meet their particular individual needs. If people with disabilities cannot meet the requirements of mainline vocational...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: A fully functioning Single Market is of crucial importance for growth, competitiveness and employment in Europe and, in this respect, the timely and correct transposition of EU Internal Market Directives into national law plays a vitally important role. The European Commission's Internal Market Scoreboard, published twice a year, highlights how successful each Member State has been in...

Written Answers — Single Market Review: Single Market Review (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Internal (or Single) Market is one of the European Union's most significant achievements. It has created jobs and stimulated growth. It has created an agreed set of rules for businesses that now have access to a market of 500 million consumers. It has generated high quality safety standards and has offered consumers (including business consumers) a wider choice of goods and services at...

Written Answers — Company Law Review: Company Law Review (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Government has approved the drafting by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel of the Companies Consolidation and Reform Bill along the lines of the General Scheme prepared by the Company Law Review Group. The General Scheme was designed to provide an appropriate framework for the formation and operation of companies and is framed primarily with private, commercially operating, companies...

Written Answers — Export Licensing: Export Licensing (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: As indicated by my colleague, Minister McGuinness, in the Dáil debate on 4 October on the Control of Exports Bill, my Department has acted on the non-legislative recommendations of the Forfás review on the export licensing of military and dual-use goods in Ireland. The export licensing function has remained with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, as recommended by the...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Directive on Services in the internal market (Directive 2006/123/EC) is a major piece of internal market legislation. It creates a "single market" for commercial services and is a key provision of the Lisbon Agenda. It provides a framework for service providers to become established in another Member State or to provide services there on a temporary basis. It strengthens the rights of...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: I set out below receipts for employment permit fees paid for each of the past 5 years: Year â'¬m 2002 14.509 2003 20.216 2004 12.864 2005 11.603 2006 10.624 I have no plans at this time to increase or reduce the fees applicable for employment permit applications.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The following table illustrates the current processing time for Employment Permits applications. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that we are meeting our customer service targets for Green Cards and Intra Company Transfers. The current processing time for Work Permits is 18 days and for Spousal Permits 22 days. Staff have been redeployed in the last 3 days to process Spousal Permits and...

Written Answers — Regulatory Impact Assessments: Regulatory Impact Assessments (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 252 and 256 together. Regulatory impact assessments are carried out by the Section responsible for the regulation in question. In so doing, the Section draws on the Regulatory Impact Analysis Guidelines published by the Department of the Taoiseach in October 2005, which includes guidelines on cost/benefit analysis. Within my own Department a dedicated...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: I assume the Deputy is referring to the most recent amendment of the UCITS directives, namely EU Commission Directive 2007/16/EC of 19th March 2007 implementing Council Directive 85/611/EEC on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities (UCITS) as regards the clarification of certain...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The breakdown of the staffing complement of those currently employed in my constituency office is outlined in the Table below together with the total annual salaries, and total annual allowances pertaining to each category, i.e. civil servants and non civil service staff. Expenses relate to the period 01/01/07 up to the present day. Costs do not include any overtime which may be worked. ...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The breakdown of the staffing complement of those currently employed in my private office is outlined in the Table below together with the total annual salaries and total annual allowances pertaining to each category, i.e. civil servants and non civil service staff. Expenses relate to the period 01/01/07 up to the present day. Costs do not include any overtime which may be worked. Staff...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The breakdown of the staffing complement of those currently employed in the constituency offices of the three Ministers of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is outlined in Table 1 below. Table 1 Minister of State Civil Servants Non Civil Servants Office of the Minister of State for Labour Affairs (Mr. Billy Kelleher T.D.) Nil 1 Personal Assistant Office of the...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The breakdown of the staffing complement of those currently employed in the private offices of the three Ministers of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is outlined in Table 1 below. Table 1 Minister of State Civil Servants Non Civil Servants Office of the Minister of State for Labour Affairs (Mr. Billy Kelleher T.D.) 1 Private Secretary, (HEO) Nil Office of the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 263 together. 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 open labour market by breaking their experience of...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (6 Nov 2007)

Micheál Martin: The breakdown of the staffing complement of those currently employed in the office of the Minister for State with special responsibility for Innovation Policy is set out in the table. The total annual salary cost of staff is also included. Costs do not include any overtime which may be worked. Minister of State Staff Total Annual Salary & Expenses (Incl. Civil Servants & Non Civil...