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Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: The day-to-day responsibility for the administration and enforcement of occupational safety and health legislation is a matter for the Health and Safety Authority. The legislation includes the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989 and a range of regulations, including the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 1993 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: Last October the Law Reform Commission prepared a consultation paper on corporate killing. It recommended that a new offence of corporate killing be established and be prosecuted on indictment without exclusion of any entity whether incorporated or not. The offence would apply to acts or omissions of a high managerial agent that would be treated as those of the undertaking. To reflect the...

Written Answers — Employment Schemes: Employment Schemes (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: The participation rates in respect of job initiative participants are as follows: Yearly Average At End of Year 2001 2,793 2,762 2002 2,663 2,525 2003 2,391 2,207 FÁS estimate that there will be an average participation rate of 2,100 on the programme in 2004 and 2,000 participants will be employed by the end of the year. The total funding allocation for employment schemes in...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: Active labour market programmes includes community employment schemes, job initiative, education and training and back to work programmes. A review of them was mandated by the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness and outlined in the programme for Government. The standing committee on the labour market is chaired by my Department and it undertook the review. It was unable to produce a final...

Written Answers — Trade Union Recognition: Trade Union Recognition (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40 and 47 together. In my reply to Question no. 56 of 13 May 2004, I identified one meeting that I had in the past five years in which the issue of trade union recognition was raised in a substantive way. In the time available to me to answer Deputy Ferris's current question, I have not been able to examine all relevant records before 1999. I will continue to...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: Proposals to repeal and amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989 have been developed at departmental level, and the Government has approved the publication of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004. The proposals in the Bill are largely the result of a review carried out by the tripartite board of the Health and Safety Authority, which includes representation from the...

Written Answers — Partnership Agreements: Partnership Agreements (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 42 and 55 together. Social partnership has made a significant contribution to the Irish economy over the past 17 years. The scope of national partnership has widened and deepened over the years, and national agreements now cover not just pay but a broad range of issues, including employment and enterprise development, competitiveness and greater social...

Written Answers — Job Protection: Job Protection (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: The commitment in the programme for Government was met by the 15% increase in the special income exemption limits for those aged over 65, resulting in an almost doubling of the limits since 1997. The redundancy review group report of July 2002, which produced recommendations for the updating of statutory redundancy legislation, considered that increasing the upper age limit of 66 for...

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 52 and 59 together. The Employment Social Policy Health and Consumer Affairs Council met on 1 and 2 June 2004 in Luxembourg. I chaired the employment items on the agenda. The Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Coughlan, chaired the social protection items and the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy O'Dea,...

Written Answers — Flexible Work Practices: Flexible Work Practices (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: The development of work-life balance policies in Ireland is addressed on two fronts: through appropriate legislative measures which provide for statutory entitlements such as maternity leave, adoptive leave, carer's leave and parental leave and through the work of the national framework committee for work-life balance policies, allied to a partnership approach in the workplace between...

Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: The national minimum wage in Ireland is €7 per hour. The table below sets out the monthly minimum wages in euro in the US and the EU member states and candidate countries with statutory national minimum wage rates. As most of the countries have a minimum wage which is set at a monthly rate, for comparative purposes, the minimum wage for each is calculated at the monthly rate. Data in...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (17 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: According to the Health and Safety Authority's records, six inspections were carried out at the national car testing centre in Deansgrange, County Dublin, comprising three routine inspections for compliance, two complaint investigations and one follow-up visit, between June 2000 and April 2004. It should be noted that this centre is only one of many national car testing centre centres...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (1 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: As part of the Government's decision in 1999 to restructure community employment, CE, future participation in CE by an individual was capped at three years, effective from April 2000. Offshore island residents are exempt from this change. Aughinish is not an offshore island and participants in projects such as the one at Aughinish are subject to the general CE eligibility criteria. The three...

Written Answers — Employment Schemes: Employment Schemes (1 Jun 2004)

Frank Fahey: Persons in receipt of the deserted wife's benefit for one year or longer, and who are 25 years of age or older, are currently eligible to participate in community employment, CE. Eligibility for job initiative, JI, is confined to unemployed persons 35 years of age or older, in receipt of an unemployment payment or one parent family payment for a minimum of five years. Spouses of unemployed...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (25 May 2004)

Frank Fahey: A total allocation of €351 million is being provided in 2004 to support up to 25,000 places across the three employment schemes — community employment, CE, Jobs initiative, JI, and the social economy programme, SEP. Of this, more than €40 million is being allocated to the social economy programme. The breakdown of the funding between regions and schemes is a day-to-day matter for FÁS,...

Written Answers — Sunday Trading: Sunday Trading (25 May 2004)

Frank Fahey: The Industrial Relations Acts 1946 — 2004 provide the basis for the establishment of the joint labour committees, JLCs, that are charged with the task of setting the minimum terms and conditions, including pay rates, for employees in various sectors of the economy. The joint labour committees are comprised of representatives of relevant employee and employer bodies with an explicit interest...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (25 May 2004)

Frank Fahey: The main FÁS programmes in operation are community employment, job initiative and social economy. The participation rates and costs in respect of each programme are as follows: Community Employment Participant / Places Year Average Year-End Costs € '000 1998 39,483 39,520 376,754 1999 37,904 36,579 375,553 2000 35,249 33,549 367,690 2001 33,034 30,809...

Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (18 May 2004)

Frank Fahey: I am aware of the report referred to by the Deputy. The thrust of the recommendations in the report are generally in line with measures already being promoted in Ireland in the area of noise in the workplace. The Health and Safety Authority, HSA, is the State body charged with responsibility for the administration, enforcement and promotion of occupational health and safety legislation and...

Written Answers — Jobs Initiative: Jobs Initiative (18 May 2004)

Frank Fahey: The jobs initiative, JI, programme is a work experience programme for persons 35 years of age or older who have been unemployed for five years or longer. Participants are offered temporary full-time employment for a period of three years. Eligible persons are employed by managing agents, with the support of a grant from FÁS for this purpose. The rates of payment for persons in receipt of the...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (13 May 2004)

Frank Fahey: The total number of community employment projects is likely to reduce slightly from the 1,368 in operation at year-end 2003. However, there are no reductions planned in the overall level of places available on the community employment programme in 2004. FÁS encourages projects that might otherwise not be renewed due to insufficient numbers of participants to amalgamate with neighbouring...