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State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. Can he tell the House whether the position of director general of the body was publicly advertised? If it was not publicly advertised, what prompted the Minister and the Government to decide to propose Mr. Deering as the director general of the body?

State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: It was through a competition.

State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Was the competition publicly advertised?

State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: That is fine.

State Authorities. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Okay.

Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I accept the Minister's response as far as it goes. To what extent does his Department monitor the maintenance by the various State agencies of the standards he has described? To what extent do those agencies report directly to his Department, as distinct from merely including an account of their compliance in their annual reports?

Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: As a Cork Member, and given the colleague beside him, does the Minister accept that for a long time the financial incentive to accept a mileage allowance instead of having one's train fare reimbursed was skewed for every Member?

Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Not necessarily. If anything, the scheme has been rendered more opaque. The Minister has been in office for so long that he does not know what has changed.

Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I am well aware of what has changed.

Departmental Travel. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I am not imputing that for a moment. In his supplementary question, my colleague raised the question of staff. If someone in the family of enterprise agencies, including Forfás, the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, needs to travel to Limerick for a meeting, what is the difference in what that person would get if he or she went by train instead of claiming mileage? I suspect that the cash in...

Irish Language. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Is it in order for a question to be answered in the absence of the Deputy who tabled it?

Company Closures. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I have brought this case to the Minister's attention on several occasions, and I am not satisfied that we have made the progress required to ensure that there is no replication elsewhere in the sector. The construction industry is particularly vulnerable to phoenix-type companies and the re-emergence of directors from one company in another. Their obligations to their employees, customers...

Job Creation. (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for job creation in the south and south west following the recent high-profile job losses at three companies; his view on the fact that high-technology jobs are being lost in the region; the steps he is taking to ensure retention of high-tech jobs in the region and the introduction of new high-tech jobs; and if...

Commissions of Investigation: Motions (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: His five years have concluded.

Commissions of Investigation: Motions (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I am speaking on behalf of my Labour Party colleague, Deputy Howlin, who would normally occupy this slot, just as the Minister of State is delivering a speech prepared for personal delivery by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, that wonderful oxymoronic departmental description that will disappear within eight weeks. The Minister of State has no responsibility for this speech,...

Commissions of Investigation: Motions (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: What rate of interest is the public private partnership paying?

Commissions of Investigation: Motions (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: The current borrowing rate the State can get is on a par with the European lending level. The rip-off of the public private partnership procurement system is not in the quality of the project management. It is not in the planning process or the value-for-money elements of the contract. It is in the rip-off for no risk because there is no market for prisons. There is no private sector...

Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: I ask the Minister of State to address the broader issue. Perhaps this can be done in the context of the consolidation of labour legislation, on which work has commenced in his Department. I believe he is familiar with what has happened both in west Limerick and at Comerama, which has been discussed in this House. The net issue concerns a group of workers who co-operate in the...

Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Sure.

Protection of Employment (Exceptional Collective Redundancies and Related Matters) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Apr 2007)

Ruairi Quinn: Yes.