Results 11,221-11,240 of 11,979 for speaker:Billy Kelleher
- Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: ââwith regard to proper regulation and ensuring that we do not overburden business. I would like to have said a great deal more but the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's five minutes went by very quickly.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: I will listen to the rest of the debate.
- Consumer Issues: Motion (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: Our rate of capital investment is the highest in the OECD.
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: I am conscious of the need for vigilance against the exploitation of vulnerable workers, including migrant workers. It is important to bear in mind that migrant workers can, and do, obtain the full benefits and protection of Irish labour law. Naturally, unscrupulous employers may try to take advantage of those in a vulnerable position. However, the Government will not stand aside while...
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy is correct that when there is a change in the economic environment, pressures are on. We do not anticipate the labour inspectors taking it any easier. They have been enforcing employment legislation and have taken several prosecutions. The Chief State Solicitor's office has been brought in to ensure prosecutions are taken. In the context of the recent media coverage of the...
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: In my first reply I failed to refer to the employment law compliance Bill. It will be published in the early stages of the next parliamentary session. Labour inspectors can go about their business because they are set up on an interim basis and have all the statutory supports in terms of enforcing employment rights legislation. They are out and about in an effective manner. Last June,...
- Industrial Relations. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: I acted upon Deputy Penrose's promptings.
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 70 and 93 together. The number of employment rights inspections, visits or calls undertaken by the inspection services of the National Employment Rights Authority in the year to the end of November 2008 was 26,787. During the same period in 2007 some 12,369 inspections, visits or calls were undertaken. Of the 26,787 inspections, visits or calls to the end...
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: A procedure is in place for striking the minimum rate. The transitional agreement under Towards 2016 was not agreed. ICTU has been in contact with the Labour Court requesting that it set up the procedure of striking a rate. The court has contacted the social partners and asked them for their observations, which must be submitted prior to Christmas week. The court will then adjudicate on...
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: The "Prime Time Investigates" programme highlighted two issues â exploitation in the context of pay and conditions and breaches of the Road Traffic Acts. The national minimum wage regulates payment in the transport sector because there are no collective agreements, joint industrial councils or joint labour committees in the sector and, therefore, NERA is focused on that. I do not instruct...
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy has raised the issue repeatedly for the past year. We are living up to our commitments under Towards 2016. A total of 81 labour inspectors are in place and no Deputy can deny they have been on the ground enforcing pay and conditions under the Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act 1996, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and the...
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: No, this is happening
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: NERA has been established on an interim basis.
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: It can enforce all employment rights legislation and it does so effectively.
- Employment Rights. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: The authority has taken prosecutions and it has the full support of legislative provisions. Officials are working with their counterparts in Revenue, the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the RSA to make sure sectors are targeted where there is profiling of vulnerability.
- Departmental Bodies. (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: We are more flexible over here.
- Economic Competitiveness (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: Deputy McHugh will have to table a parliamentary question on that.
- Order of Business (10 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: It has not concluded in the Seanad.
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (9 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: On 22nd October last I met with representatives of the Irish Hotels Federation where I heard at first hand of the difficulties being experienced by hotels with regard to wage costs and, in particular, the issue of premium payments for Sunday work. At that meeting I advised the Federation to make their concerns known through their representatives at the social partnership table and to pursue...
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (9 Dec 2008)
Billy Kelleher: I have forwarded details of the company to which the Deputy referred to the National Employment Rights Authority, which is responsible for monitoring compliance with Employment Rights Legislation. Details have also been referred to the Health and Safety Authority, which has responsibility for health and safety standards.