Results 49,201-49,220 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin

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...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Hogan wanted the groceries order abolished as well.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Does the Deputy believe that?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: They know nothing.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: How many party questions will the Deputy ask?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is deliberately missing the point.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is deliberately distorting what I said. The comparison between the UK rates and the Irish rates is the key point.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I am saying it is more protected.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Deputies will be aware that on 8 November last, I announced that the Government had decided to revoke the Restrictive Practices (Groceries) Order in its entirety. This decision can only be implemented by means of an Act of the Oireachtas. Thus, the revocation of the groceries order is one of the principal purposes of this Bill. I also...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: I never have.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should read it again.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: We did not. That is unfair.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: We allowed the Deputies to go to Hong Kong.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2006)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Hogan's remark is unfair.