Results 48,961-48,980 of 51,072 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: The present IDA Ireland strategy for south Tipperary is to concentrate future economic development in Clonmel by developing the town as a first-class location for overseas investment. This strategy has been agreed with the South Tipperary County Development Board. At a meeting of Carrick-on-Suir Town Council last year the agency's plans for south Tipperary and Waterford city were outlined to...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: I want to stress however, that Carrick-on-Suir is not being neglected. I met a delegation from the town council last year and then met with FÁS. The town council specifically brought the FÁS service to my attention and asked us to expand and improve it. Following a meeting with the council the agency agreed to increase its level of engagement with the long-term unemployed in the town. This...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: The company will seek to recruit approximately 200 staff per year, both graduates and non-graduates, for the next five years. The development of community based enterprise centres is a crucial part of the drive to create new regional enterprise. Enterprise Ireland provided support of €54,852 in 1998 for the setting up of the enterprise centre in Carrick-on-Suir. This centre has been sold to...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: Would the Deputy please listen? That was a fall from 3,411 in December 2004.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: The focus of my Department and its agencies is firmly concentrated on managing this transition of our economy through the use of the best possible blend of policies to strengthen both national and firm-level competitiveness. An integral element of the Government's policies is to encourage enterprises to undertake increased levels of investment and research, to use more technology in product...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: ——that the State development agencies, under the auspices of my Department, will continue to work closely together and with the County Development Board, as well as participating in the special working groups set up in October 2004 by the county manager of Tipperary south to deal with job creation issues in the towns of Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary. The working group is already...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: ——that the County Development Board and the special working groups on which the State agencies are represented, would be the appropriate fora to fulfil this function. There is no point in setting up a similar forum again with the same people.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: We will work to see what we can do for the workers concerned. They are our immediate priority and we will see what we can do.

Written Answers — Stem Cell Research: Stem Cell Research (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: Stem cell research is an area which holds considerable promise in the treatment of various diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and spinal cord injury. Research is under way in Ireland on therapies using stem cells derived from adult tissues. As regards ethical issues pertaining to stem cells derived from embryonic sources, the current...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 254 and 255 together. IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The Forfás annual employment survey records jobs gained and lost in companies supported by the industrial development agencies. Data are compiled on an annualised basis but data on a county basis for 2005 in...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: Particulars of contracts continuing, completed and initiated directly by my Department are set out below: Company — QMP Publicis, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2 — delivered also through Media Vest, Sir John Rogerson's Quay and Brindley Advertising, Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2. Project description — TV, press and radio advertisement to publicise the increase in the National Minimum...

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Micheál Martin: I left a great legacy.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (31 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 389 and 395 together. In respect of numbers, the most recent figures released show that 19 existing employees in Enterprise Ireland have indicated their willingness to transfer to Shannon. The number of applications received from within the civil and public service, including my Department, amount to 33, thus giving a total overall of 52 persons. The most...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (31 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The main purpose of the community employment, CE, programme is to provide work experience and training for the long-term unemployed and disadvantaged groups, including those with a disability, and thereby enable participants to advance successfully to employment in the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to a work routine and to assist them to...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (31 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The work permit section of my Department has informed me that it has no record of any valid application in this instance. It should be pointed out, however, that incomplete and incorrectly completed applications, or applications for ineligible sectors or ineligible types of employee are returned to the employer concerned.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (31 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I have no plans to require nationals of the new member states of the European Union to obtain work permits and there are, therefore, no implications for free movement of labour within the Union.

Written Answers — Staffing Costs: Staffing Costs (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: An increase in the current complement of labour inspectors from 31 to 75 officers would entail an additional cost of about €4 million. The calculation includes costs for consequential support staff and services and, based on Department of Finance methodology, also incorporates estimated expenditure for overheads, accommodation and pension provision.

Written Answers — Land Acquisition: Land Acquisition (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio, including the purchase of land and the creation of business parks are day-to-day operational matters for the agency and not matters in which I have a function. I have been informed by IDA that it has been in discussions with Mayo County Council regarding the purchase of a site of circa 27 acres owned by the local authority on the...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 85 together. In response to a similar question posed by the Deputy in December last I indicated that I had visited Kerry on 21 July 2005 with officials from my Department and the State development agencies. It is my firm intention to visit the Tralee and north Kerry area as soon as my departmental and parliamentary commitments permit and I look forward...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83 and 84 together. IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The Forfás annual employment survey records jobs gained and lost in companies supported by the Industrial Development Agency. Data are compiled on an annualised basis but data on a county basis for 2005 in...