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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (2 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: My colleague, Minister Mitchell O’Connor, and I intend to bring forward proposals in response to the Programme for Government commitment to tackle problems caused by the increased casualization of work and to strengthen the regulation of precarious work for consideration by Government. We intend to include protections aimed particularly at low-paid, more vulnerable workers. Our...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (2 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: In conjunction with my colleague Minister Mitchell-O'Connor, I intend to bring forward proposals dealing with the Programme for Government commitments to tackle the increasing casualisation of work and to strengthen the regulation of precarious employment for consideration by Government. I intend to include protections aimed particularly at low-paid, more vulnerable workers. Our proposals...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (2 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: Ireland has a comprehensive suite of employment rights legislation including measures to prevent exploitation in the workforce. We have a well-resourced labour inspectorate, which forms part of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). In addition, where an individual believes they are being deprived of employment rights applicable to employees, they may refer a complaint to the WRC where...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Gender Equality (2 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: Policy responsibility for gender equality in employment remains with my colleagues the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald TD and her colleague David Stanton, TD Minister of State for Justice at the Department of Justice and Equality with special responsibility for Equality, Immigration, and Integration. To that end, Minister of State Stanton is chairing...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Gender Equality (2 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: The gender employment gap is defined as the difference between the male and female employment rates (the number of male/females aged between 15 and 64 expressed as a percentage of the total male/female population aged between 15 and 64). According to the Central Statistics Office release regarding Quarter 4 2016, the male participation rate is 71.2% and the female participation rate is...

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: I welcome the opportunity to address Dáil Éireann today on this motion. The matters raised are very important and I would like to state that while the Government will be abstaining from the vote on the motion for reasons which I will explain, there are elements of the motion with which we can agree. There is no doubt that the insurance sector in Ireland has undergone a period of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (1 Mar 2017)

Pat Breen: Access to the industrial relations machinery of the State is governed by the definition of “worker” in Section 23 of the Industrial Relations Act 1990, which provides, inter alia, that a “worker” means any person aged 15 years or more who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer. In addition, Section 3 of the Industrial Relations Act 1946...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: I welcome all those in the Visitors Gallery, whether they are actors, musicians or freelance journalists. They are all very welcome and I am sure it is a great night for all of them. I want to respond to the previous speakers concerning this Private Members' Bill. As earlier interventions have acknowledged, the Bill has as its basis the desire to protect vulnerable self-employed...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: I thank all speakers for debating this in a calm atmosphere. Last Friday the parties voluntarily agreed to take part in talks under the auspices of the Labour Court and they should be given the time to resolve the dispute with the help of the industrial relations institutions of the State. As I said earlier, it must be remembered that this is a difficult industrial relations dispute....

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: I want to put on the record of the House that I have no direct role in the resolution of this dispute or similar disputes. However, I do ensure that the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, are equipped and resourced to handle industrial relations disputes that arise. I believe they continue to serve the country very well. They have settled many difficult disputes in...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: I thank the Deputies for raising the matter and wish to take the opportunity to respond. I know that when this Topical Issue was put down, the position was somewhat different. We were in the midst of an ongoing strike involving pickets and high levels of stress for workers with significant impacts on the public and the company with many other traders suffering from collateral damage. We...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: 404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: 672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9779/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Zero-hour Contracts (28 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: My colleague, Minister Mitchell O’Connor, and I intend to bring forward proposals in response to the Programme for Government commitment to tackle problems caused by the increased casualisation of work and to strengthen the regulation of precarious work for consideration by Government. We intend to include protections aimed particularly at low-paid, more vulnerable workers....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (23 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: Apart from public sector employees, where certain statutory retirement ages may apply, there is no statutory retirement age for employees in Irish legislation. A contract of employment will generally contain a retirement age but this is a matter of contract between the parties. The upper age limit for bringing claims under the Unfair Dismissals Acts was removed by a provision in the Equality...

Topical Issue Debate: IDA Funding (22 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: I thank Deputy D'Arcy for raising this issue. I know he has a particular interest in ensuring Wexford gets its share of jobs. I apologise on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, who was unable to attend due to a prior diary commitment. I think it would first be useful to set out some information on the aims and operation of the IDA regional property programme. As...

Topical Issue Debate: IDA Funding (22 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: The information I have in regard to the business site at Drinagh is that it is 7.5 acres and it is available for marketing. I want to highlight a point I referred to in my first contribution, namely, 70% of new jobs are created by existing clients. That is an important statistic. Wexford is very strong in the medical-technology, medtech, sector. Ireland's medtech sector is on a par with...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: First Stage (22 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: No.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (22 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: 134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8864/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (22 Feb 2017)

Pat Breen: 135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application will be processed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8865/17]