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Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Section 53 was inserted on Committee Stage in the Seanad. It makes it an offence to fail to pay an award of compensation in circumstances where the court has made an order so directing the person concerned. A person guilty of an offence under section 53 shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or both. This arose in order...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: These are technical amendments. There is nothing of substance in them. They simply replace wording with more effective parliamentary language.

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Amendment No. 35 is a drafting amendment. It is just changing the word "decision" to "determination" because that is the proper description of a High Court conclusion in such a case.

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Before commencing, I will ask for Clerk's corrections. I would be obliged if, in accordance with Standing Order 140, the Acting Chairman would direct the Clerk to make the following minor drafting corrections to the text of the Bill, which are being done in the interests of textual clarity and correction of cross-references and do not affect any substantive amendment. Seanad amendment...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: This is a technical amendment that deals with the commencement arrangements that will apply post enactment. The purpose of amendment No. 1 is to clarify the fact that section 8(5) contains a specific commencement provision. In other words, there will be a general commencement date, but it will be subject to various repeal provisions only coming into force after the commencement of Part 4 on...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: From the Seanad (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: These are amendments to the definitions section and are of a drafting and technical nature. They do not change in any way the substantive impact of the Bill. They are to have the correct references in the definitions section and only include a definition where an Act is mentioned more than once in the course of the legislation. Amendment No. 11 inserts an additional term in the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tribunals of Inquiry Reports (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Moriarty Tribunal made two recommendations for changes to company law, as follows: - That a provision similar to section 172 of the UK Companies Act, 2006 be adopted, together with the adoption of additional implementation or enforcement measures. - That consideration be given by the Oireachtas, and/or by the Company Law Review Group, to enacting provisions similar to those contained...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: I am very conscious of the anxiety among employees that the announcement to close the Abberley Court Hotel in Tallaght has created. All staff affected by the announcement may contact the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) either individually or collectively, to discuss their employment rights, including matters related to redundancy. The Workplace Relations Customer Service Section...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: I have asked both IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland to pursue all possible options in seeking to source an alternative employer and find alternative employment for those impacted by the Bank of America/MBNA redundancies in Carrick on Shannon, which unfortunately took effect in November last. As part of this ongoing work, IDA Ireland are engaging with key players in the International Banking...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Review Office Remit (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy will be aware that responsibility for the implementation of personal insolvency legislation rests with my colleague, Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Justice and Equality, and responsibility for the Credit Review Office with my colleague, Michael Noonan, T.D., Minister for Finance. The Deputy will also be aware that the Taoiseach has previously announced that the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Adviser Appointments (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Action Plan for Jobs (APJ) 2015 was published in January and is the fourth in the multi-annual series of a whole of government approach to economic recovery, export growth and job creation. The development and coordination of the Action Plan for Jobs was, and is, led by my Office and Department. Forfás were centrally involved in this process before it was integrated with the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Vacancies on State Boards (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Information relating to current vacancies on the boards of agencies within my Department’s remit is presented in tabular format below. As the Deputy will be aware the Government decided on 30thSeptember 2014 that all appointments (with some limited exceptions) are to be advertised on the State Boards portal, stateboards.ie,operated by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). The process...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: This closure, which has now been postponed until 29th May, is very much regretted. I travelled to Carrickmacross to discuss the issue with some of the workforce there after the announcement, and I am very conscious of the need to pursue replacement jobs in the area. I established an interagency group to co-ordinate the response from the state in terms of awareness of entitlements and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Any job losses are very regrettable and our Development Agencies ensure that in such cases replacement projects are pursued vigorously. Despite some specific company losses in the Sligo area in the recent past, the overall unemployment trend in the region has improved significantly over the last few years. Unemployment in the Border Region, although still too high, stood at 10% the end of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies Data (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: There is a substantial programme of reform underway and well advanced within my Department in relation to agencies and public bodies. This will see a reduction in the number of agencies or bodies under the remit of my Department fall by 41. This includes the dissolution of 35 City and County Enterprise Boards, the merging of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency, the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: Ireland has a robust suite of employment rights legislation, which offers extensive protections to employees. Those protections include the Protection of Employment Acts 1977-2007, which provide for a process of information and consultation between the employer and the employee representatives in circumstances where a collective redundancy is proposed, the Minimum Notice and Terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (12 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for assisting start-ups, business development and job creation in each local area. The LEOs can provide advice and direction, covering all government supports and requirements, to anyone who wishes to start or expand a business. The LEOs can also provide funding for projects that meet certain criteria, in certain...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Grocery Sector Regulation (7 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: The programme for Government contains a commitment to regulate certain practices in the grocery goods sector and this will be met by way of enabling powers to regulate certain practices in the grocery goods sector. These powers are contained in the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014. On 22 December 2014, I issued a set of draft regulations for public consultation with a deadline...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (7 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Department does not advertise its annual Action Plan for Jobs, the first one of which was launched in February 2012, and each year since. This year, in response to a well-recognised demand for more information on Government supports for SMEs, the Department decided to run an awareness campaign to address this deficit. Following a tender process in the Official Journal of the European...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Appointments (7 May 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Government approved the delegation of responsibility for implementation of the Construction Contracts Act 2013 to my colleague, the Minister of State for Business and Employment, Deputy Gerald Nash., last November. I am informed that Minister Nash intends to appoint a Chairperson of the Ministerial Panel of Adjudicators, which is to be established under the Act, as soon as is...