Results 48,141-48,160 of 51,089 for speaker:Micheál Martin

EU Enlargement. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: I am talking about barriers to employment. There was a need to facilitate integration and English language training is part of that. We fund a variety of employer and industry-led initiatives through the in-company training programme, the Skillsnet programme and the Accel programme. The various sectors may make proposals relating to, perhaps, the Skillsnet issue.

EU Enlargement. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: FÁS is actively providing training for foreign workers in this country. There are obligations on the employers to facilitate the proper integration of employees and many are fulfilling them. In terms of small and medium enterprises, SMEs, there are issues relating to economies of scale and capacity. A variety of schemes is available to companies if they wish to work with us. We will be...

EU Directives. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: Subsequent to the European Parliament's vote last February, the Competitiveness Council adopted a Common Position on the draft directive on services in the Internal Market at its meeting on 24 July. The text was adopted as an A item at the council with only two member states abstaining. It was supported by Ireland. This followed intensive discussions on the proposal at the Competitiveness...

EU Directives. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: Our major thrust in terms of developing enterprise in indigenous enterprise and SMEs has been to develop the services side of the equation, while supporting high end manufacturing underpinned by indigenous research and development within Irish manufacturing companies. There is a significant drive, on the services side, to inform companies of the opportunities worldwide, not just in the...

EU Directives. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: It is fair with the exception of the Deputy's suggestion that the services directive does not constitute a high priority. The development of services will always be a high priority as the employment return is huge and it is the direction in which most developed countries are headed. The Deputy is correct that the advice to me is that the services directive is not a huge step forward and...

EU Directives. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: It remains to be seen whether the directive will break these barriers. Some countries impose conditions of establishment on Irish companies that would be anxious to establish bases in other EU countries and require them to deposit substantial sums of money. I am sure those companies would be willing to speak to the Deputy and other Members. They have found the current position quite...

Industrial Development. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: This issue is a day-to-day operational matter for Enterprise Ireland and neither I, as Minister, nor my Department has any function in respect thereof. Enterprise Ireland has informed me that the issue relates to a fire that took place at a plant in Rooskey, County Roscommon, in May 2002. As a result of the fire, slaughtering and boning activities in the plant were terminated. A cannery...

Industrial Development. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: My Department is not doing that or saying anything about it.

Industrial Development. (11 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: The agencies involved are statutory bodies and my Department is not involved.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Work Permits section of my Department has informed me that there are no restrictions on a foreign national on a valid work permit changing employer. However their new employer must obtain a new work permit on their behalf. Detailed guidelines for both employers and employees are available on the Department's website at www.entemp.ie.

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386 and 387 together. In the four year period 2002 to 2005 a total of 95 new jobs were created in IDA supported companies in County Cavan while 71 new jobs were created in County Monaghan. The attached tabular statement sets out the number of jobs created in each county in each year. The marketing of individual areas, including Cavan and Monaghan, for new or...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Work Permits section of my Department has informed me that this application was refused and the employer was notified of this decision in writing and of their right to appeal. To-date no such appeal has been received in the Work Permits section. In the aftermath of EU Enlargement, it is Government policy that employers should be able to source nearly all of their workforce needs from...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Work Permits section of my Department has informed me that this application was refused and the employer was notified of this decision in writing and of their right to appeal. To date no such appeal has been received in the Work Permits section. In the aftermath of EU Enlargement, it is Government policy that employers should be able to source nearly all of their workforce needs from...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: Entrepreneurship in Ireland is encouraged by the active and constant pursuit and promotion by the Government of an economic environment that is supportive of entrepreneurial activity combined with a wide range of targeted interventions by various State enterprise development agencies. There are, in the first instance, thirty-five City and County Enterprise Boards (CEBs) spread throughout the...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: The FÁS Training Centre located at Bishopstown is the major direct training resource in the Cork City area. A smaller training unit located within the Sunbeam premises provides industrial training facilities for up to 15 apprenticeship classes. In addition, FÁS provides trainee recruitment and financial support to the following community based services — Northside Community Enterprises,...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Work Permits section of my Department has informed me that the Appeals Officer dealing with this case has requested additional information from the employer. On receipt of that information this appeal will be considered further.

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: Finding alternative employment for the workers in question is a priority for the State Development agencies and, last week, myself and the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources met with a representative group from Ballivor, including some former workers, and outlined ongoing developments and stressed the priority efforts being made in Ballivor. The Industrial Training...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: Grant agreements between Enterprise Ireland and companies are a matter for those parties and for which the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment does not have a direct function. I am advised that the company in question has been paid a total of €1.368m in supports by Enterprise Ireland since 1986. All funding provided by Enterprise Ireland is subject to a legal grant agreement...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (10 Oct 2006)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ireland and its regions. While I am empowered under the Development Acts to provide funds to the agency to discharge its obligations and to issue general policy directives, I am specifically precluded from giving directives to the agency concerning individual undertakings or...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (10 Oct 2006)

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, in August 2006, the Agency agreed to sell the Kanturk site on a leasehold...