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Census 2011 (5 Oct 2010)

John Curran: The CSO is not allowed to discriminate in favour of any one group of people when conducting its recruitment.

Census 2011 (5 Oct 2010)

John Curran: All applicants will have to be treated fairly. On the homeless, there is a section for those involved in the voluntary sector. I do not know if the category of "homeless" is included directly. I will check that for Deputy Coveney.

Ministerial Responsibilities (5 Oct 2010)

John Curran: The principal powers assigned to me under the Statistics Act relate to the nomination of the Director General of the CSO, for appointment by the President, section 12(1), and the appointment of the National Statistics Board, section 18, which have been exercised as required since enactment of the legislation, and the making of orders under section 25 of the Act in respect of mandatory...

Ministerial Responsibilities (5 Oct 2010)

John Curran: I will begin with the last point. There is a range of statutory instruments under section 25. I will outline the first to give the Deputy a flavour and the rest are included in the longer answer. SI 909 of 2005, the Statistics (Business Registers) Order 2005, is a regulation which provides for the conduct of the CSO's annual survey of business demography. The primary purpose of the survey...

Ministerial Responsibilities (5 Oct 2010)

John Curran: In any case, they are included in the written reply. The Deputy referred to section 25 of the Statistics Act 1993, which enables the Taoiseach to make orders making it mandatory for persons or undertakings surveyed by the CSO to provide information sought in the relevant survey. Such orders may also be made by the Minister of State with responsibility for the CSO. When an order under...

Ministerial Responsibilities (5 Oct 2010)

John Curran: To reiterate in regard to the legislation, section 25 of the Statistics Act 1993 does not relate because it is specifically in regard to statistical purposes. Clearly, the type of information that is required here would require some scrutiny of administrative systems and practices but, in any event, the figures have been progressed separately in a different manner.

Business of Dáil: Motion (30 Sep 2010)

John Curran: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders of the Order of the Dáil of this day, the Dáil shall sit later than 4.45 p.m. today and business shall be interrupted not later than 7 p.m., and the proceedings in regard to No. a22, statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010, shall, if not previously concluded, adjourn at 7 p.m. tonight and the...

Written Answers — Educational Qualifications: Educational Qualifications (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Ireland and similar surveys across the EU collect information on the highest level of education attained by individuals. The group normally used for these comparisons is adults aged 25-64 years inclusive. Those aged under 25 years are not included as large numbers of people aged under 25 will not have completed their full-time education and...

Written Answers — Overseas Visitors: Overseas Visitors (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: Data on overseas travel to Ireland is published in the CSO's Overseas Travel release. These results are based on the CSO's Country of Residence Survey, which is carried out continuously at airports and ports in the Republic of Ireland. The results of the survey are expressed in terms of the number of "trips" rather than the number of "visitors" which was requested by the Deputy. The travel...

Written Answers — Dáil Reform: Dáil Reform (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The proposals agreed at Government were brought before the relevant forum of the Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform. Work is ongoing with the various Party representatives on this Sub-Committee with a view to achieving the highest possible level of cross-party consensus in relation to proposals for the reform of Dáil procedures. I do not believe that...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 to 148, inclusive, together. The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. In line with EU requirements the QNHS collects sector of employment information according to the standard EU classification (NACE). The sectors for which...

Written Answers — Census Information: Census Information (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The Census 2006 results were made available for Dáil constituencies as defined by the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 16) Act 2005 which was in force at the time of the census. It is only possible to provide Census 2006 information for a revised constituency where it is defined in terms of complete electoral divisions. As this is not the case for Dublin West as detailed in the Report on Dail and...

Written Answers — Migration Statistics: Migration Statistics (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The information requested by the Deputy is in set out in the following table which was taken from the Annual Population and Migration Release, published in respect of Mid-April each year. The table distinguishes immigrants and emigrants by Sex and Age Group for the years 2006-2010. Estimated Migration classified by Age Group, 2006 – 2010 Age groups 0 – 14 15 – 24 25 – 44 45 – 64...

Written Answers — Foreign Nationals Data: Foreign Nationals Data (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates relating to the labour force. Due to difficulties in accurately capturing the number of non-Irish nationals in the state through the QNHS estimates relating to nationality, particularly those involving lower orders of magnitude, must be seen as tentative. The data requested by the Deputy in relation to...

Written Answers — Migration Flows: Migration Flows (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The information requested by the Deputy is in set out in the following table which was taken from the annual Population and Migration Release, published in respect of Mid-April each year. The table distinguishes immigrants and emigrants by Irish and non-Irish nationality for the years 2006 to 2010. Estimated Immigration and Emigration (Persons in April) by Year Immigrants (000)...

Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates relating to the labour force. The most recent figures available are for Quarter 2 2010. The table below presents estimates of the employment and the unemployment rates of persons aged 15 and over classified by age group and highest level of education attained. It should be noted that the employment rates...

Written Answers — Earnings Data: Earnings Data (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is the official source of short term statistics on earnings and data is presented relating to average earnings in different economic sectors. The latest published data is for the first quarter of 2010 and this data is presented in table 1 below. It can be noted that EHECS does not collect information on the educational level of...

Written Answers — Economic Dependency Ratios: Economic Dependency Ratios (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The information requested by the Deputy regarding dependency ratios is not available at a county level for each of the past ten years. However, the breakdown is available at a NUTS3 level and is set out below. The data was derived from the annual Population and Migration Estimates releases, published in respect of Mid-April each year. For comparison purposes an additional table detailing...

Written Answers — Earnings Data: Earnings Data (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: The Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is the official source of short term earnings data. Through this survey data is only collected at the level of the enterprise (i.e. each enterprise makes one return indicating overall earnings, numbers of employees and hours worked for the enterprise as a whole) so estimates cannot be broken down by gender. The latest published data is...

Issue of Writs: Dublin South, Waterford and Donegal South-West By-elections (29 Sep 2010)

John Curran: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate this evening on the moving of the writs by Fine Gael for the by-elections in Donegal South West, Dublin South and Waterford. Over recent months the topic of the holding of by-elections has been the subject of widespread discussion and comment. While the Government fully recognises the entitlement of citizens to full representation, it is...