Results 1-7 of 7 for tenet speaker:Willie Penrose

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2016)

Willie Penrose: ...to deal with bullying complaints, and outline the formal route for adjudication on bullying complaints which has to be legally sound and cost effective. One must have a comprehensive definition of bullying. It needs to incorporate the tenets that bullying occurs when an individual or group of individuals behaves unreasonably towards a worker or a group of workers. One has to describe...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2014)

Willie Penrose: ...to what is fundamental Labour Party policy, the construction of thousands of houses across the country, to replenish the housing stock and provide much needed employment in rural areas. This must be a central tenet of the review of social policy later this year. We are constrained by economic parameters and the need to achieve a debt-GDP ratio of 3% which circumscribes our ability to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Six-monthly Report on Developments in EU: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (3 Dec 2013)

Willie Penrose: ...is an important area, particularly the method of distribution of direct payments. This will be the kernel of the discussions from here on in. The structuring should achieve one of the central tenets of the CAP, namely, to keep the maximum number of farmers on the land. This will not be achieved without the structure I advocate. It means large payments to corporations, etc., must go off...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Statements (14 Mar 2013)

Willie Penrose: ...have gone astray in this regard - the origins of the policy which focused on the cheap supply of quality food for the 500 million citizens of the European Union and those further afield. A central tenet of the policy was to keep the maximum number of farmers on the land earning a living by achieving a viable income. There is now a narrow window of opportunity for the Minister, in his...

Schools Building Projects (10 May 2011)

Willie Penrose: ...for additional accommodation that is likely to last for more than three years the option of using a devolved grant to purchase prefabricated classrooms or construct permanent classrooms. A central tenet of the scheme is that responsibility for the management of a project, including cost control, rests with the school authorities. Schools are informed of this in their approval letters. In...

Chemicals Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 May 2008)

Willie Penrose: ...Brussels in November 2005 and on other occasions to discuss the legislative proposals. There were various attempts to reduce the scope of the Bill and dilute its provisions. However, its central tenet remains the placing of the burden of proof on manufacturers to show that some 30,000 commonly used industrial chemicals and substances that were placed on the market by them are safe and...

Control of Exports Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Oct 2007)

Willie Penrose: ...is being made to establish a legally binding arms trade treaty. In his summation, will the Minister of State elucidate on the progress made so far and how we can promote an important and central tenet of our policy? Deputy Higgins has been to the forefront in pointing out how Ireland has been involved in the international arms trade despite the Government's frequent denials. The...