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Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: My Department is very conscious of its obligations under the Data Protection Acts, and adopts a proactive approach to ensuring that personal data stored by it is kept secure. Physical safeguards, a secure ICT infrastructure and staff awareness programmes play a key role in supporting data protection in my Department. Regarding ICT this is a continuous process, involving a combination of...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: My Department's records indicate the following: 2007 — One BlackBerry device reported stolen. 2008 to date — One laptop reported stolen, one laptop reported missing, one BlackBerry device reported stolen. There have been no USB flash drives reported lost or stolen. My Department invoked the facility to automatically wipe all data from the BlackBerry devices as soon as they were reported...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The Government decided on 8th July last that no further expenditure on the acquisition of accommodation for decentralisation should be sanctioned pending detailed consideration by the Government of two reports: one from the Decentralisation Implementation Group on the feasibility of phased moves by the State Agencies; and one from the Implementation Group of Secretaries General on the...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: IDA Ireland is actively working with Arklow Chamber of Commerce and Wicklow County Council and the management of Allergan to promote Arklow as a location for a replacement industry or alternative project. IDA has met the management of the company to begin the process of seeking a replacement industry by requesting a profile of the workforce and conducting a detailed audit of the facilities....

Written Answers — National Training Fund: National Training Fund (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The National Training Fund supports a range of training schemes administered by organisations such as FÁS, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, SFADCo and Skillnets. FÁS delivers training programmes to assist the long-term unemployed, early school leavers, people with disabilities and the socially excluded gain access to the Labour Market. FÁS also delivers apprenticeship training and training...

Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The amounts spent on advertising in the Irish language since the enactment of the Official Languages Act 2003 by my Department and the Offices of my Department are as follows: Year Amount Spent € 2003 9,271.75 2004 28,407.20 2005 42,164.69 2006 67,002.08 2007 54,678.00 2008 (To Date) 45,523.93 Total 247,047.65 I am not in a position to supply the information requested by the...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Sep 2008)

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

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: As part of Government policy on mainstreaming all FÁS Services are open to people with disabilities. In this regard the services and programmes in place may be summarised as follows: Main Services provided by FÁS: FÁS operates training and employment programmes; provides a recruitment service to jobseekers and employers; an advisory service for industry; and supports community based...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Sep 2008)

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 line with recommendations of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector, Reports No. 42 and 43. In addition to the above, the CEO of Science Foundation Ireland is paid an allowance in the nature...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The tables below outline the number of staff by grade in my private and constituency office and in those of each Minister of State within my Department. The cost for 2007 of each such office in terms of salary, overtime and expenses are included together with the projected costs for 2008 to date. Office of the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade & Employment Civil Servants...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (24 Sep 2008)

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

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas, for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. I have been informed by the Agency that to date in 2008 there have been three first time site visits to Mayo. For reasons of...

Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the industrial development agencies. Data is compiled on an annualised basis and is aggregated at county level. Figures for 2008 will not be available until early 2009. The numbers employed in IDA supported companies in Co Mayo in each year of the 5 year period 2003-2007 are shown in the...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency, as part of the statutory responsibility assigned to it by the Oireachtas and it is not a matter in which the Minister of the day has any involvement. I have been informed by IDA Ireland that the Agency acquired 37 acres of land at Westport for development into a flagship Business...

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The company in question is a client of Enterprise Ireland. The agency has been working with the company particularly over the last three years. However, in the middle of August this year, the company informed its staff and then publicly announced that it intended to close as of 31 October 2008. Enterprise Ireland will continue to work with the company to assist in whatever way possible. I...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: Given the significant reduction in construction related activity and the subsequent increase in the numbers of construction workers who have been made redundant, I am very conscious of the need to try and accommodate apprentices in the completion of their apprenticeships. To achieve this, both my Department and FÁS have been actively examining this issue and have put in place a series of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: The table below outlines the number of Civil Servants in my Constituency Office and those of my Junior Ministers within the Department. The table also sets out the salary pay scale for each staff member: Constituency Office Grade Salary (Pay Scale) per annum Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment 1 Executive Officer €31,394–€49,809 Minister for Science, Technology...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: Donegal is a target location for the IDA with the County now competing for a different type of business to labour intensive manufacturing, which had been the key target over the past four decades. Overseas investors are now seeking locations for more advanced manufacturing or office based solutions, to a great extent depending on high skill and high value work. While this has required a...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: Bonuses, merit awards and other payments above basic salary for the heads of State Agencies and Boards under the aegis of my Department, are not approved directly by me. However, the Secretary General of my Department recommends for approval and onward transmission to the Department of Finance, performance related awards for certain senior Office holders in the following bodies: The Labour...

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (24 Sep 2008)

Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 232, 233 and 237 together. IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ireland and its regions. The marketing of individual areas for new or expansion FDI investments and jobs is a day-to-day operational matter for the Agency. While I may give general policy directives to the Agency, I am...