Results 101-120 of 408 for construction industry council

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (12 Dec 2019)

Pat Breen: I thank Senator Mulherin. She has been an advocate for infrastructure during her time here in the Seanad because she has raised so many issues in relation to industry and small businesses with my Department. I can see her point that having critical infrastructure in place is really important. I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 Nov 2018)

John Halligan: Apprenticeship is a demand driven educational and training programme, which aims to develop the skills of an apprentice in order to meet the needs of industry and the labour market. Consequently, the number of apprentices being registered is determined by employers within each sector. My Department is committed to supporting the increased registration of apprentices across all sectors. New...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

...to four engineers, up to practices with over 20 to 30 employees. Generally, engineering practices would typically carry out fire safety design, inspections and certification of fire-resisting construction, fire safety systems, electrical and mechanical systems for fire detection, emergency lighting, smoke control and active fire suppression. Activities requiring inspection and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (22 Feb 2024)

...the Deputy. There is a lot of interest from farmers and crafters in the opportunities with wool. I would encourage anyone who is interested or has an idea to engage with the Irish Grown Wool Council because, essentially, it is its function to gather such information and come up with proposals for what would be necessary to develop an industry using Irish wool. The wool research and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...funding to service sites. Even with all this support, which can be almost €150,000 per unit, we sometimes do not get a price that my colleagues here might regard as affordable. Is the cost of construction the key barrier? What can we do to tackle the issue of the cost of construction and the inflationary impacts? I welcome the announcement of the Minister for Public Expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (18 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...include planning guidance on the attachment of appropriate conditions to quarry-related permissions. Where blasting is required, the issuing of a permit for the use of explosives in the extractive industry, or for other purposes, is a matter for An Garda Síochána, which falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice, whose Department has issued the Guide to...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report Stage. (23 Feb 2005)

Phil Hogan: ...under the act, a system of accreditation for people acting as trainers or assessors. The Minister of State will be aware of matters I raised on Committee Stage and during Questions regarding the construction industry. It has emerged that employees did not receive proper training or certification of their training under the FÁS schemes established for this purpose. The Health and Safety...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...this year. In addition to forecast numbers in the existing trades, apprentices will also be registered on a range of new apprenticeships that will be developed under the auspices of the Apprenticeship Council. A number of these new apprenticeships will commence registration this year and further apprenticeships will come on stream in 2017 and future years. The Programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2017 (18 Oct 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: ...for Finance, a number of representative organisations.  Officials from my Department also attended these meetings. The representative organisations involved were IBEC, ICTU, the IFA, the ICMSA, the Construction Industry Federation and the Community and Voluntary Pillar. Representation at the meeting on behalf of the Community and Voluntary Pillar included: - Community Platform;...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2006)

Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach's attention drawn to an assertion that an astounding 70,000 to 120,000 construction workers are being criminally denied their legal and mandatory pension rights by construction bosses, which means that, apart from losing pension entitlements, they are deprived of death in service benefits and sickness benefits? It was not a revolutionary socialist or a trade union activist...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Construction Industry (30 Mar 2023)

Michael McGrath: Profits arising from construction trade activities are taxed in the same manner as other trades. Income tax or corporation tax (as the case may be) is charged under Schedule D Case I for each year of assessment on the annual profits or gains of the construction trade carried on by a person. Relief for certain capital expenditure is given by way of capital allowances. Expenditure which is...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Dec 2005)

Mary O'Rourke: ...we know, however, EU issues have intervened and all European leaders are engaged with those. I will seek to have such a debate after Christmas. Senator Hayes also referred to the ESRI report on the construction industry. Bodies such as the ESRI do excellent work but tend, from time to time, to shoot from the top of their mouths. Senators will recall the National Competitive Council had...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (24 Mar 2010)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the announcement by the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, of an allocation of €20 million for civic offices for Roscommon County Council in Roscommon town which will create 100 jobs during construction of the multistorey building. It is a great boost to the industry, as well as the staff, the county manager and all those who serve as councillors, as I did when I initiated the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2021)

Norma Foley: ...previous teaching experience, to recognised post-primary teachers is outlined in Circular 29/2007 and 10/2001 for primary teachers, and was agreed in the first instance, by the Teacher Conciliation Council (TCC). This Council is comprised of representatives of the teacher unions, school management bodies, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Department of Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2018)

John Halligan: ...to take Questions Nos. 125 to 134, inclusive, together. I have read the report referred to in the Deputy's questions with interest. Minister Bruton is meeting with representatives from the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) later this week to discuss the report and its recommendations. Securing skills supply from the education and training to the construction sector is a major...

Unemployment Levels: Motion (10 Mar 2009)

Deirdre Clune: ...in the context of placing an emphasis on labour-intensive projects and activities that will keep small, local economies in existence. Earlier this evening I attended a briefing provided by the Construction Industry Federation at which representatives outlined the dire nature of the situation faced by those within that industry. In any downturn, the construction industry is always the...

Seanad: Employment Action Plan (28 Oct 2010)

Cecilia Keaveney: ...this matter. I have met a number of people who either left school in the past year or two, could be just coming up to their leaving certificate examination or have been ten years working on construction sites and now find themselves back in County Donegal unemployed and on jobseeker's allowance or some other social welfare payment. A person recently told me they had done a construction...

Seanad: Lisbon National Reform Programme: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: Senator McDowell is more upset about it than I am. The EU Commission and the Council of Europe issue platitudinal statements on issues connected with the Lisbon Agenda but there is no level playing field in respect of the euro. One set of rules applies to small countries such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and some of the Nordic countries, which adhere strictly to the limitations on...

Report on Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...her colleagues for their work behind the scenes and for their patience. I am grateful to the experts and officials within the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Irish Green Building Council and the Office of Public Works, OPW, who willingly gave the committee their time and expertise for us to better understand embodied carbon, what is currently being done to...

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...not outsource that to a for-profit health sector or for-profit education system. The State educates those people so that they are able to provide these necessary skills. However, when it comes to construction, for example, or what will be a vital area of climate response in all its myriad of forms, we are largely relying on the private sector to provide apprenticeships. That simply is...