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Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I understand that the employment permit in respect of the above named expired on the 9/9/2009 and my Department has no record of a renewal application being submitted. The scheme provides is that a renewal application must be submitted 8-12 weeks prior to the expiry of the existing permit. However, if the prospective employer or employee wishes to submit a new application it will be...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Work Permits (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I am not aware of the specific document to which the Deputy refers and I will revert to the Deputy. Our green card system is still very responsive to the areas mentioned by the Deputy. Green cards are still issued for ICT professionals such as computer systems managers, analysts, programmers and testers. Green cards continue to be issued for health care professionals, for all medical...

Work Permits (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I reject the assertion. We are continuing to monitor and to work with the Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland, MRCI and a range of Government agencies with regard to work permits. The target for processing correctly completed applications - these are the three key words - is 15 working days. Green cards, inter-company transfers and health care sector applications continue to be processed...

Work Permits (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: -----which is due to the reprioritisation of resources within the Department. A large number of staff were moved from the employment permits section to the redundancy section.

Work Permits (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: The Deputy will be aware of the industrial relations difficulties.

Work Permits (12 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: Since 2004, a key element of our labour market policy has been to ensure that general labour and skills needs are met from indigenous labour and from within the workforce of the European Union. For strategic skills or labour shortages in designated occupations in key economic sectors, our policy is to issue employment permits for the employment of non-EEA nationals for specific vacancies and...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 95 and 97 to 99, inclusive, together. I regret to advise the Deputy that I am precluded, by virtue of data protection considerations, to provide the Deputy with the company specific information he has requested. It has always been, and continues to be, my Department's policy and practice not to disclose details of redundancy rebate payments made in the case...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (11 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: 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. There are no restrictions on non-EEA nationals changing employer after a period of one year....

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (11 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: Adjustments in the gross wages of employees in the private and public sectors have occurred as a consequence of the severity of the current economic recession. The recession is having a direct impact on the level of agreed pay settlements in almost all areas of the private sector and this has also been reflected in the provisions of the Employment Regulation Orders that have been agreed by...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: My Department administers the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) in relation to redundancy matters on behalf of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. There are two types of payment made from the SIF – rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees, and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I thank all Members for their contributions to the debate over the course of the past day. I will bring them back to the contribution of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, in which he put the context of the unprecedented budgetary and economic difficulties we are facing. We are giving leadership in facing these difficulties and this leadership is beginning to bring stability to...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I hope so. Let us reflect on the real context of the debate. There has been much talk by the Opposition about the 2009 debate. If the motion is right today then it was right in 2009 when many Opposition Members contributed to and voted on the debate but continued to accept their pensions until last week. Let us be very clear about the real motivation behind this debate; it is more to do...

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: That is a matter for people in Donegal to decide.

Ministerial Pensions: Motion (Resumed) (6 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: The rainbow Government lowered the threshold for qualifying for pensions.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 May 2010)

Dara Calleary: I note from the details supplied that this case was heard before a rights commissioner who issued his decision on 9 May 2008. The claimant appealed this decision to the Labour Court. On 23 October 2008, the Labour Court issued its decision upholding the decision of the rights commissioner. Both the Labour Relations Commission and the Labour Court are independent statutory bodes which act...