Results 6,781-6,800 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Teachers' Remuneration: Teachers' Remuneration (28 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to reverse the decision not to pay allowances to new entrants to the teaching profession, which would create an unfair and unequal system in which certain teaching staff are paid up to 30% more than new entrants; the reason graduates completing their studies in May 2012 will have to comply with the Croke Park agreement...

Legislative Programme (23 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he proposes to publish the legislation in respect of the establishment of the Statutory Trust Fund; the proposed timescale he has for the establishment of this fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10217/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (23 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs announced by a company (details supplied) since September 2011; the dates of these announcements; if the jobs are full time paid positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10398/12]

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I must confess Deputy Wallace has far more practical experience of the construction industry than I do. If one looks at the situation in the country at present, the percentage of agency workers who fall into the category of permanent agency workers is minuscule. The Minister should have dropped the Swedish derogation from the Bill. Every action he has taken since the issue was first raised...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I require 30 seconds more. The measure is being introduced to accommodate a minuscule subsection of those employed as agency workers. We are not asking the Minister to get rid of the concept of permanent agency workers. All we are asking him to do is stop permanent agency workers being excluded from the protections of the Bill. There is no point in introducing something that can be used...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is fundamentally inaccurate. He accuses speakers on this side of the House of trying to outlaw the arrangement of permanent agency workers. They are not. Nobody is objecting to the arrangement whereby a person can be a permanent agency worker. What people on this side of the House who tabled amendments are objecting to is the notion that if somebody falls into this category,...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I, too, broadly support this amendment. Basically, the position is that if a hirer signifies a wrong comparable employee, or if a hirer in some other way does not pay the agency worker that to which he or she is entitled, that worker will then have an action against the employment agency which is designated the employer, even though it is the hirer who is at fault. The case will have to be...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 13: In page 8, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: "(3) If any agency worker believes that an incorrect comparator has been used that worker must inform the employer and the employer will be obliged to investigate the claim and if necessary correct the situation within a period of fourteen days. If the employer corrects the situation within fourteen days,...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: While I appreciate what the Minister intends to include in the guidelines about conciliation, I do not understand his reasoning in rejecting this amendment. It appears to me to be typical Civil Service-speak, in that he cannot accept this because there is no sanction and no oversight. However, no one is worried about sanction or oversight. Were an incorrect comparator to be used, the...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Not necessarily.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, line 6, after "same" to insert the following: "or where different, in the aggregate not less favourable than,". As for amendment No. 15, the basic point is that under the European Union directive, an agency worker must be put on the same level, in so far as possible, as a permanent employee. I simply am using a formula that has been used in other labour...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister indicate the percentage of agency workers who are classed as permanent agency employees?

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I want to know the position before I comment.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Government's jobs initiative contains a commitment to introduce legislation to abolish city and county enterprise boards and put something else in their place. When can we expect to see that legislation?

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: This is a very serious point. The chief executives of both the Industrial Development Agency, IDA, and Enterprise Ireland told the relevant committee this morning that legislation was necessary in this case.

Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: When can we expect that legislation?

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 18 and 19. The net effect of the amendment is to remove section 1(2) from the Bill. The Bill would therefore come into effect when it was passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas and signed by the President. I am trying to eliminate the element of retrospection back to 5 December. We have the rather peculiar situation that the employment...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: As this issue was well ventilated on Committee Stage, I do not want to labour the point. The Minister cites an instance in which a hirer did not co-operate with an agency, leaving it with a liability. The Bill makes it clear that the agency does not have a case against the hirer in such an instance. Until the Bill becomes law the hirer is under no legal obligation to co-operate with the...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Not Sweden.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (22 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, line 26, after "agency" to insert the following: ", but the following shall not be deemed to be agency workers— (a) employees of contractor companies; and (b) limited liability companies where the worker is also the beneficial owner of the company". As I said on Committee Stage, I do not have strong feelings about this amendment. I will not lie awake...