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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Mr. Quinn mentioned redundancies. Where will they occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Mr. Quinn mentioned biomass. Will the same number of staff be needed if the company moves to biomass?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Or more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Will there be sufficient biomass production nationally to meet the company's requirements? Can the company provide what is required or will it need to continue to import biomass as it is currently?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Will the company be in a position to retain existing staff and move them into the biomass area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I welcome the fact that Bord na Móna is going to maintain its briquette factories at Derrinlough and Littleton. Will permanent staff at both facilities who are due to be redeployed during the summer months be guaranteed this will happen on a full-time basis? Is it planned to lay them off temporarily or how does the company propose to proceed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: People who contacted me were concerned about that matter. Bord na Móna is moving more and more into renewables. Has it examined the use of anaerobic digestion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Is the company planning to do anything in this area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Is Deputy Conaghan satisfied now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Perhaps we can allow the witnesses to answer Deputy Lawlor's questions now before the Deputy asks further questions, if that is agreeable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: There was a question on community engagement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Does Mr. Quinn wish to add anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What would be Mr. Quinn's biggest fear when Bord na Móna comes into-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Senator Mullins's questions remain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: We started off by talking about the importance of Bord na Móna in terms of the amount of jobs it provides for people. The clear message coming from Mr. Quinn is that Bord na Móna intends to maintain employment numbers to 2030 and beyond. This is reassuring. Does Bord na Móna intend to provide any opportunities to existing staff to upskill in any way or to diversify into some...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Mr. Quinn mentioned the weather and its impact and how difficult it can be to manage. If Bord na Móna has full-time staff employed to work in a weather-dependent area, how does it manage that workforce? Must they move on to short time or part-time work or how is that issue managed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What does that mean? If they are supposed to work from Monday to Friday, but it rains on Wednesday and Thursday, what happens? Do the staff not come in for work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: They remain at work. Is there any question of them not working from Monday to Friday?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: That is where I was going with that question. Does the fact Bord na Móna has large stocks of briquettes in the briquette factory have an impact on permanent staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna (9 Jun 2015)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Will automation have any impact on the staff? There is significant diversification from labour intensive work so will there be a loss of staff because of automation?