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Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: We will not know the figure until we get the valuation.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: We are only working on the book value at present and it will be based on the valuation.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: To be fair to the Chair, we are completely out of order because this is a financial resolution.

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The reply to Question No. 64 of 2nd April 2009 refers. The changed economic and employment market situation has meant that many of the workers who would have benefited from training programmes for those in employment are now unemployed. It is against this background that we must adjust our training programmes to the new reality. That is why my Department is implementing a number of...

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The basic salary and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer of all of the public agencies under the aegis of my Department are sanctioned by the Department of Finance. In addition to the above, the CEO of Science Foundation Ireland is paid an allowance in the nature of pay on a personal basis (as approved by the Department of Finance) in recognition of his international research...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The National Training Fund forms part of the supplementary budget process and the most recent estimates for the receipts and expenditure of the Fund in 2009 will be published as part of the Revised Estimates Volume.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The scheme of performance-related awards in the civil service applies to Deputy and Assistant Secretaries and equivalent grades. The pool for performance awards is 10% of the pay bill for the group concerned. Details of awards made to individual officers under the performance-related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned. Details of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Statistics: Departmental Statistics (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: With regard to the industrial development agencies, the Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job numbers in companies that are clients of the industrial development agencies. Information is aggregated on an annualised basis at county level. The information is provided by companies on a confidential basis for statistical purposes only. In the circumstances we do not publish information...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The only Voluntary or Community organisations which receive funding directly from my Department are the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed (the INOU) and "The Wheel" (a national support and representative network for the Community and Voluntary Sector). The amount of funding each received from 2006 to date is as follows. The Deputy might also wish to be aware that while FÁS, an...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I was appointed as Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on 7 May, 2008. My predecessors in the Department were Micheál Martin who was the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from September 2004 until 7 May 2008 and Mary Harney who was the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment during 2002 and until September, 2004. Since 2002 the annual...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: No staff member in my Department with less than two years service on 1 March 2009 gave notice to terminate their employment before 1 April 2009 under Section 5 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act, 2009.

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: Negotiations are continuing between officials of my Department, other Government Departments, Enterprise Ireland and the various parties whose cooperation and participation will be required before this Fund becomes operational.

Written Answers — Competition Acts: Competition Acts (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: Retailers, like all other undertakings, are subject to the provisions of sections 4 and 5 of the Competition Act 2002. They are therefore prohibited from engaging in a variety anti-competitive practices such as price-fixing, market sharing abusing dominance etc. In addition, the Competition (Amendment) Act 2006 inserts a new Part 2A immediately after section 15 of the 2002 Act. The Part...

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 26 and 27 together. The formal decision by SR Technics to close the Dublin facility was first conveyed at a meeting on 11 February 2009. However, I had been aware for some months before that date that the company was engaged in a major review of group operations which would have consequences for the Dublin facility. IDA had intensified its engagement with...

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The moratorium is effective from 27 March 2009 to end 2010. Currently this Department employs 10 people on temporary contracts, which are due to expire on dates between 1 May and end 2009. It had not been anticipated that any of these contracts would be extended but this would have been considered in the context of the Department's business needs, prior to the expiry of each contract....

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I thought the Deputy's party were champagne socialists.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: That is a charge I will not accept.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I want to refute the charge made by Deputy Higgins but I can discuss it later.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: It is better to have me that way than the Deputy.

Financial Resolution No. 10: Stamp Duties (7 Apr 2009)

Mary Coughlan: Actually, we could tax that.