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Excellence in Architecture. (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The Deputy is aware that the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism has sent a letter offering his warmest congratulations to Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara of Grafton Architects on winning the first building of the year award at the inaugural World Architecture Festival. The new faculty building for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, which they designed, is both stunning and truly...

Excellence in Architecture. (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I will convey the Deputy's views to Enterprise Ireland which is the appropriate agency.

Special Educational Needs. (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister for Education and Science sends his apologies and has asked me to clarify the issues raised by the Deputy, particularly the Department's position on the project in question and the fund for the development of targeted educational responses to certain children at risk. The Department of Education and Science has funded projects under this fund since 1999 with a total of €1.269...

Written Answers — Social Partnership Agreements: Social Partnership Agreements (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: No such request from the Construction Industry Federation for a meeting has been received either by the Tánaiste or myself. I am, however, aware that CIF members will deliberate on ratification next week. I welcome the fact that the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and IBEC have recently ratified the Towards 2016 Review and Transitional Agreement, 2008-2009. This new Agreement provides us...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Employers have a statutory obligation under the Protection of Employment Acts 1977 to 2007 to inform the Redundancy Payments Division of my Department at least 30 days in advance of all proposed redundancies of 5 or more workers. Information on these collective redundancies is then collated and analysed by the Employment and Training Strategy Unit of my Department in order to establish...

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 20, 22 and 23 together. In accordance with commitments given under Towards 2016, the Social Partnership Agreement, the number of Inspectors in the National Employment Rights Authority was scheduled to increase from 31 to 90. Competitions were held in 2007 for the recruitment of the additional fifty-nine Inspectors and, fifty-nine inspectors have been...

Written Answers — Redundancy Levels: Redundancy Levels (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The following table of figures shows the actual number of employees who qualified for statutory redundancy lump sum payments on a year by year basis from January 2002 to end October 2008. This does not reflect those who lost their jobs having less than two years' service in an employment as this does not qualify for payment under the Redundancy Acts. Analysis carried out previously by my...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The European Parliament by way of its legislative Resolution, of 22nd October 2008, have approved the Council common position for adopting a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on temporary agency work. I welcome the fact that the Parliament, in Plenary, accepted the Council common position without amendment. This matter will now be scheduled for the next meeting of the...

Written Answers — Equal Opportunities Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Data from the CSO quarterly industrial survey shows that average industrial earnings per hour for male industrial workers on adult rates in June 2007 was €16.62. For female industrial workers the average rate was €12.73. From the CSO National Employment Survey for October 2006, average hourly earnings were €20.50 for males and €17.67 for females. These latter figures cover the...

Written Answers — National Employment Rights Authority: National Employment Rights Authority (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Significant progress is being made on delivering the commitments agreed in Towards 2016 and, in this regard, the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) was established on an interim basis in February 2007, pending drafting and enactment of legislation, to undertake greater levels of employment law compliance activities. The Employment Law Compliance Bill was initiated in this House on...

Written Answers — Workplace Accidents: Workplace Accidents (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43, 51 and 52 together. The number of deaths recorded in workplace accidents during 2007 was 67 compared to 51 in 2006 with a considerable amount of this increase being accounted for by a number of fishing accidents. Of the 67 fatalities in the year 2007, 18 occurred in the construction sector. This was an increase of five fatal accidents on the 2006 figure....

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I propose to take Questions Nos. 44 and 47 together. The marketing of the regions for job creation and investment is a day-to-day operational matter for the development agencies and while I may give general policy directives to agencies, I am precluded under the Industrial Development Acts from giving directives regarding individual undertakings or from giving preference to one area over...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the recent decisions by IBEC and ICTU to ratify the Towards 2016 Transitional Agreement reached between Government and the Social Partners. The Agreement provides for a number of commitments, including some involving legislation, aimed at strengthening protections for employment standards, while also ensuring that Ireland continues to provide an excellent environment for business...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The Government decided, in October 2006, to continue to require that nationals of Romania and Bulgaria apply for work permits in order to participate in the Irish labour market, but giving those nationals preference over non-European Economic Area nationals. The Government was informed in its decision by the very significant inflow of economic migrants Ireland had experienced since May 2004,...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Trade unions holding a negotiating licence are free to engage in collective bargaining on wages and conditions of employment. Ireland's system of industrial relations is based on a voluntary approach with terms and conditions of employment being determined in the main by a process of voluntary collective bargaining between the parties, without the intervention of the State. The collective...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The Employment Permits Section informs me that an application in respect of the above named was received in their section on the 19th November 2008. Assuming the application is complete a decision will be made on the application in the next 2-3 weeks.

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: The application in respect of the above named was refused on the 7/2/2008 on the grounds that it is current Government policy to issue new work permits for highly skilled highly paid positions or for non-EEA nationals who are already legally resident in the State on valid employment permits or where there is an officially recognised scarcity of workers of a particular type or qualification....

Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Some companies in Poland are in recession also.

Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: Deputy Varadkar obviously does not know what is happening in the world.

Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)

Billy Kelleher: He would cut it by more than we did, 5.5% in each Department.