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Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (4 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: I refer the Deputy to my reply of yesterday on the same subject to his Question No. 424.

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: It is value added.

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: Some 75% of people do not smoke. They should not be hit with it. It is a joke and is a very poor approach from a public health perspective.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: That is the title of a song that won the Eurovision years ago.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy praises the Ceann Comhairle.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: There are nine Civil Servants in my Department in receipt of a full salary and have not worked in the past month. Their absence is mainly due to Sick Leave, Maternity Leave and other statutory entitlements. The total cost of employing the staff concerned is €28,701. It is not possible to identify staff on Annual Leave for the period in question in the time frame allowed.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: The Employment Permits Section of my Department has informed me that a letter of appeal was received in the Section on the 13th March 2007. Having heard the appeal, the original decision was upheld in this case. The employer has been notified of this decision in writing.

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. While I may give general policy directives to the Agency, I am precluded under the Industrial Development Acts from giving...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the agency. While I may give general policy directives to the agency, I am precluded under the Industrial Development Acts from giving...

Written Answers — Petroleum Storage: Petroleum Storage (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: The primary legislation governing petrol storage and dispensing in Ireland is the Dangerous Substances Act of 1972 and the Dangerous Substances (Retail and Private Petroleum Stores) Regulations 1979 (S.I. No. 311 of 1979) as most recently amended by the Dangerous Substances (Retail and Private Petroleum Stores) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 630 of 2006). The purpose of the 1979...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio, including the purchase and disposal of property, is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency as part of the statutory responsibility assigned to it by the Oireachtas and not a matter in which I have a function. I have been informed by IDA Ireland that, on 12th March 2007, the Agency issued a letter of offer to Manorhamilton...

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: My Office has received correspondence from the Irish Travel Agents Association and a number of the Association's members regarding their concerns in relation to particular provisions of the Consumer Protection Bill, which recently completed its passage through the Dail. The Association is concerned that the provisions in the Bill prohibiting traders from imposing additional charges on...

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: The proposal referred to by the Deputy relates to Section 48 of the Consumer Protection Bill 2007 which prohibits traders from imposing additional charges on customers by reason of the customer choosing to make payment for goods or services by one specified method over another. I am aware of the concerns expressed by a number of travel agents and their representative association that Section...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: As already indicated in my reply to the Deputy dated the 6th March 2007 the Employment Permits Section informed me that having heard an appeal, the original decision was upheld in this case.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: There is only one staff member in my Department who has been provided with two phone lines at their home. This person is a teleworker requiring both phone and data connectivity and for technical reasons was provided with a second phone line.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: I understand that the Deputy wishes to have details of travel and subsistence paid to the Departmental Training Officer and training days organised within the main Department since 1st January 2004. Since that date up to 31st March 2007, travel and subsistence amounting to €796.56 in total was paid to the current and previous Departmental Training Officer. Records show that person...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: I understand that the Civil Service Training Centre relocated to Tullamore in July 2006. In the twelve month period prior to the relocation of the Centre, no travel or subsistence allowances were paid to staff of my Department in respect of attendance at pre-retirement courses delivered by the Centre. During the period July 2006 to the end of January 2007, staff of my Department attended a...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: No staff who have transferred to my Department under the decentralisation CAF or DCAF schemes have been reassigned to another section of my Department within six months of their Departmental transfer; as no such moves have taken place to date, the issue of the effect on staff morale, does not arise.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (3 Apr 2007)

Micheál Martin: In line with the practice for some time now, Temporary Registered Doctors are granted permission from the Garda National Immigration Bureau to live and work in the State for up to 7 years. The changing short-term nature of their work patterns is such that this is the best way to facilitate them working here. By the end of 7 years they must have passed an examination to obtain full...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (29 Mar 2007)

Micheál Martin: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons (including those with a disability) 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...