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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a fixed term basis. The programme helps unemployed people to progress to the open labour market by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: FÁS Employment Services provides a full guidance service to the unemployed, including architects, and offers upskilling/retraining opportunities through its Training Services Division. It also provides grant aid assistance through the Technical Employment Support Grant (TESG) for training not provided by or available from FÁS. FÁS is currently setting up, on a "pilot" basis, a number of...

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: That legislation will be debated in the House later today. I assume the Deputy will put forward the points he has raised and ask the Minister to consider them for Committee Stage.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The answer to the second question is "Yes". On the first point, the mental capacity Bill will be brought forward later this year.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: No.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I said "No".

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: No legislation is promised.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I tried to answer the Deputy's question twice. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is in consultation with the Attorney General on the preparation of further amendments to that legislation. He hopes to have dealt with it as quickly as possible so that it can proceed to Committee Stage. There is no legislation promised on the second matter.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: Yes.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The harbours legislation was passed by the Seanad and is awaiting Second Stage in the House. It will be a matter for discussion among the Whips. The other issue has been discussed on a number of occasions and I have briefed members of both my own party and the Opposition. There is still much ongoing work and the premise of the discussion is to secure as many jobs as possible.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: It is proposed to take No. 8a, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a Council Regulation and for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a procedure for the negotiation and conclusion of bilateral agreements between member states and third countries; No 8b, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval...

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The Minister has advised that this is a matter of negotiation over three months and the views of the Oireachtas will be enormously important.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: I am sorry, if it is a matter of timing in terms of the committee not having sufficient time on Wednesday, I am sure the committee Chairman can facilitate further discussion and analysis if needs be.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: On the Defamation Bill, as the Ceann Comhairle knows, the Minister is bringing forward amendments in consultation with the Attorney General and they will be brought to committee in due course.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: On the defamation Bill, as I indicated, the Minister——

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: There is not much point answering the question.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The regulation of financial institutions legislation will be brought before Cabinet very soon. Once it is signed off by the Cabinet, it will be brought to the House. On the bus strike, CIE is available to enter negotiations and the industrial relations mechanisms are always available.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: Report Stage of the Broadcasting Bill will be taken next week.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: The legislation has already been enacted.

Order of Business (26 Mar 2009)

Mary Coughlan: No.