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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services Provision (17 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The position is that higher education institutions, including Mater Dei Institute of Education and Dublin City University, are autonomous bodies and their day to day operational affairs including decisions on the provision of courses are the responsibility of the management authority and governing body of the institutions. My Department has no specific role in relation to the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The July Education Programme(JEP) is available to all special schools and mainstream primary schools with special classes catering for children with autism that choose to extend their education services through the month of July. My Department also provides for a July Education Programme for pupils with a severe/profound general learning disability. Children with autism in mainstream...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate Examinations. Full details of the scheme are available from their website: www.examinations.ie/candidates/reasonableaccommodations In view of this I have forwarded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (17 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The current qualifying distance of 45 km for the higher non-adjacent rate of student grant, takes into account a reasonable radius within which students may commute on a daily basis. The measurement of the distances relating to the award of adjacent or non-adjacent rates of student grant is a matter for the relevant grant awarding authority. The distance measurement for student grant rates...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Funding (4 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: The availability of European research and innovation programmes provides Ireland with valuable mechanisms for firms - indigenous and multinational - to engage in high-level international research to further their innovativeness and competitiveness. These programmes are also a critical source of non-Exchequer funding for this important economic activity. The current EU Framework Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (4 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: Over the last five years the Government has worked tirelessly to ensure that the access of SMEs to an appropriate supply of financing from both bank and non-bank sources is improved and that all businesses have access to appropriate sources of finance to grow develop and expand. A number of key policy and legislative initiatives were developed and delivered since March 2011 with some being...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (4 May 2016)

Richard Bruton: In June 2015, together with IDA Ireland, I was delighted to welcome plans by Moss Vision to establish a facility in Roscommon town to manufacture ophthalmic products. The facility will also act as a sales, marketing and distribution centre for the company’s European operations. The job target is for 50 positions to be created over a seven year period. There are currently six people...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (28 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: Supporting enterprise development in all regions of the country in order to support job creation is a key objective of the Government, with initiatives such as the Regional Action Plans for Jobs seeking to build on the capabilities and strengths of each region to maximise enterprise growth and job creation. The objective of the 8 Regional Action Plans is to strengthen and develop regional...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (28 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: The European Union (Consumer Information, Cancellation and Other Rights) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 484 of 2013) require traders to provide a range of information to consumers in a clear and comprehensible manner before the consumer is bound by the contract. That information includes the total price of the goods or services inclusive of taxes, or where the nature of the goods or services is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tax Avoidance (28 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: The professional services surcharge to which the Deputy refers is one of a number of longstanding anti-tax avoidance rules relating to close companies. According to the Revenue Commissioners, a close company is a company that is under the control of five or fewer participators or is controlled by any number of participators who are directors. I understand that the close company surcharge...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (28 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Sport and Cultural Employment Permit Application as detailed above was refused on 15thApril 2016. This refusal was made on the basis that it appeared from the information submitted, that the foreign national in respect of whom the employment permit was being sought, was at the time of application the sole employee of the employer. This being the case, the application did not pass the...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: That is not the reality. Anyone who has gone out to work to make a living knows that no one owes him or her a living. One must create the opportunity. We have set out our ambitions for full employment, a housing sector that can provide an affordable home for everyone and fair access to health and education services. We can do this, but we can only do it on the basis of our economic...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: I see huge opportunities in this regard in the years ahead.

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the opportunity to have this debate. I would say, particularly to new Deputies, that no Deputy in this House has a monopoly on compassion. Elected Members from all sides of the House have come here with a mandate to try to do the best they can for their people. We all see the challenges in housing, mental health, education and in trying to provide jobs for our people. We all...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: On a point of order, it is not the tradition in this House that officials are asked during a debate to respond to points raised. Ministers will respond at the end of the debate in the normal manner. That is the way this House has always worked.

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: There is no expectation that every question will be answered as it is raised.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: With effect from 1st October 2015, the activities of the Labour Relations Commission, the National Employment Rights Authority, the Equality Tribunal and the first instance functions of the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Labour Court were merged into a new Body of First Instance, known as the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). The WRC’s core services include the provision...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Appeals Tribunal (27 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: At the outset I would like to explain that the Employment Appeals Tribunal is currently working through its legacy caseload with a view to being dissolved in 2017. The functions of the Tribunal have, since 1 October 2015, been taken over by the new Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court under the provisions of the Workplace Relations Act 2015. However, the Tribunal, in dealing...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Compulsory Purchase Orders (26 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: In November 2015, the Supreme Court set aside a compulsory purchase order issued by IDA Ireland in respect of lands in County Kildare owned by Mr. Thomas Reid. The Court found that the specific legislation that IDA Ireland had relied upon – Section 16 of the Industrial Development Act, 1986 – could not be utilised in the circumstances of the case in question. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme Data (26 Apr 2016)

Richard Bruton: Microfinance Ireland was established to administer the Microfinance Fund on behalf of the Government. Its funding comes from a number of sources: (i)€10m in the form of a Government grant; (ii) €15m loans in total from the three main banks; (iii) support via a Guarantee from the European Investment Fund, and (iv) customer loan repayments. The latest figures to hand, covering...