Results 49,041-49,060 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Under my Department's refund of fees scheme, the costs of appropriate third level courses, which are pursued in officers' own time, are refunded on successful completion of such courses. All staff are encouraged to participate in the scheme, as the pursuit of appropriate third level qualifications enhances their personal development and assists the Department to meet its business objectives...

Written Answers — Metrology Service: Metrology Service (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The tabular statement that follows sets out the inspections carried out by the Legal Metrology Service during 2005. Furthermore, the Legal Metrology Service has advised that, while a limited inspection regime is operated, a full programme of inspection of weighing equipment in meat processing plants will not be possible until an industrial relations issue relating to the conveyance of testing...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The company in question announced through its corporate headquarters that it was rationalising its European operations and that this would require a reduction in job numbers of 300 across its facilities. Part of its manufacturing operation in Drogheda is being transferred to a sister facility in Holland. This will result in the loss of approximately ten permanent and 15 part-time jobs in...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Job creation and job losses are a feature of economic development in all countries as various sectors expand and contract in response to market demand for goods and services, competitive forces, restructuring and technological change. State support for enterprise and job creation is channelled through the industrial development agencies, IDA Ireland, which has responsibility for foreign...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The information requested by the Deputy is being compiled by my Department but is not yet complete. Given the broad range of activities involved and the time period encompassed by the question, together with the Deputy's decision not to set a minimum cost threshold below which the data were not required, my Department is unable to supply the material sought by the Deputy within the timescale...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Current employment at the company's Westport facility is 40 and is expected to increase to 60 by the end of the year. The company is recruiting for high level financial services positions on an ongoing basis and this has enabled management to attract additional high level activities for the business in County Mayo.

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. The Forfás annual employment survey records jobs gained and lost in companies supported by the IDA. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and provisional data on a county basis for 2005 in respect of IDA client companies is not yet available from the...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The work permit section of my Department has informed me it has no record of any valid application in this instance. Incomplete or incorrectly completed applications are returned to the employer concerned for amendment.

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The issues of job creation and retention in Enterprise Ireland supported companies is a day-to-day matter for the agency itself, and not one in which I am directly involved. In 2005, a total of 122 Enterprise Ireland supported companies provided 3,054 full time jobs in County Mayo. During the year, Enterprise Ireland client companies in the county showed employment gains of 400 and losses of...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The work permits section of my Department received an application for a work permit renewal in respect of the above named individual on 3 January 2006. A reply will issue within a week.

Written Answers — Science and Technology Advisers: Science and Technology Advisers (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 755 and 756 together. The post of chief science advisor, CSA, to the Government was established to provide independent scientific advice to the Government on a confidential basis. The CSA did not advise the Government on the subjects of the incineration of waste and the genetic modification of food.

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. The cost per job sustained in IDA supported companies is calculated by taking into account all IDA Ireland expenditure to all firms in the period of calculation and is calculated using data collated for the Forfás annual employment survey. Only jobs...

Written Answers — County Enterprise Boards: County Enterprise Boards (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: County and city enterprise boards, CEBs, assist enterprises in the micro-enterprise sector, that is, enterprises with no more than ten employees. The primary role of the CEBs is to develop indigenous enterprise potential by stimulating economic activity and promoting the establishment of micro-enterprises at local level. The average cost per job created by the CEBs in 2004 stands at €4,463...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The issue of job creation by companies supported by the enterprise development agencies is a day-to-day matter for the relevant agencies, and not one in which I am directly involved. Average cost per job is calculated by taking into account all direct agency expenditure on Enterprise Ireland client companies. Only jobs created during, and sustained at the end of, each seven-year period are...

Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I am aware from media reports that a certain scheme or schemes, involving people "gifting" sums of money to other people in the expectation that they would receive multiples of the original sum involved, has been operating in the Cork and Kerry area. I understand the Garda Síochána in County Cork is investigating this scheme under the Pyramid Selling Act 1980. This legislation prohibits...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The total amount collected by my Department by way of contributions from employees to superannuation schemes for civil servants for each of the years 2003, 2004 and 2005 is set out in the first table below. The figures include payments by established and non-established civil servants to contributory pension schemes and to spouses' and children's pension schemes. Additional voluntary...

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The revised Civil Service policy on harassment, sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace, A Positive Working Environment, which came into effect on 1 September 2005, is the basis for dealing with bullying issues in my Department. This policy, which was launched in October 2005, was circulated to all employees in November 2005. There have been no law cases dealt with or settled in my...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Performance related awards totalling €141,375 were paid in the year ended 31 December 2005 to 13 individuals who held posts at assistant secretary and deputy secretary level in my Department and some bodies under the aegis of my Department. The awards were made on the basis of a scheme of performance related awards that operates for these grades across the Civil Service and is overseen by...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: It is my Department's policy to consider favourably applications from employers for the renewal of existing work permits, in all sectors, where the employment and immigration conditions pertaining to the issue of the original permit continue to be met by employers.

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (25 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: This Government is committed to addressing the needs of those with disabilities and, in particular, to removing the obstacles which make it difficult for people with disabilities to participate in the labour market. Community employment is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons, including those with a...