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Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The Defence Forces and the Department have taken a wide variety of initiatives and have devoted an unprecedented level of resources to this issue, since Dr. Eileen Doyle and the external advisory committee presented their original report The Challenge of a Workplace in March 2002. This independent report addressed the range of interpersonal issues within the Defence Forces. Its contents and...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Strength: Defence Forces Strength (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The role of the Defence Forces is set out in the White Paper on Defence as follows: to defend the State against armed aggression, this being a contingency, preparations for its implementation will depend on an ongoing Government assessment of the security and defence environment; to aid the civil power, meaning, in practice, to assist, when requested, the Garda Síochána, which has primary...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The Reserve Defence Force review implementation plan, which was officially launched in July 2004, started a process that will lead to significantly enhanced Reserve Defence Force capabilities while ensuring the traditional strengths of the reserve are maintained. The ambitious programme of reform and modernisation that is set out in the plan will be implemented over the period to end 2009. On...

Written Answers — Partnership for Peace: Partnership for Peace (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Ireland's participation in Partnership for Peace to date is set out in our six individual partnership programmes, copies of which have been lodged in the Dáil library. Ireland's fifth IPP, covering the period 2005-2006, was completed last year in consultation with the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Justice Equality and Law Reform, Health and...

Written Answers — Airspace Regulation: Airspace Regulation (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The Irish Aviation Authority, under the aegis of the Department of Transport, is responsible for the safety regulation of Irish airspace. An airspace change proposal was submitted by Weston Airport Ltd. to the Irish Aviation Authority in August 2005. The proposal was also copied to the Department of Defence and is currently under examination by the Air Corps. It is anticipated that following...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Ireland is currently contributing 768 Defence Forces personnel to 19 different missions throughout the world. Of these personnel, 149 are officers. Full details of all personnel currently serving overseas are listed in the following statement. The main commitments are to the United Nations Mission in Liberia, with 425 personnel, to the NATO-led international security presence, or KFOR, in...

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (7 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. Statistics on employment and unemployment are compiled, at a regional level, from the Quarterly National Household Survey. The latest statistics show that there were 28,800 people classified as unemployed in the Dublin region in the June-August quarter of 2005. Sub-regional statistics of the kind requested by the Deputy are not...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Quarterly labour force estimates are compiled from the quarterly national household survey. As of the second quarter, March to May of 2004, there were 521,400 employees with union membership from a total of 1,507,100 employees, giving a union membership rate of 34.6%. In the second quarter of 2005 there were 1,594,200 employees of whom 544,500 or 34.2%, were members of a trade union.

Written Answers — Work Practices: Work Practices (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: Quarterly labour force estimates are compiled from the quarterly national household survey. The latest statistics available are for the period June to August 2005. The exact information as requested by the Deputy is not available as the hours worked per day is not asked of respondents. Data on usual hours worked per week are collected and the usual hours worked per week for those in full-time...

Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The relevant information from the census of industrial production is set out in the following table. The most recent results at county level are for 2003. Number of persons engaged — Textile Industries and All Industries, County Donegal, September 1994 and 2003. September 1994 September 2003 Number of persons % of industrial employment Number of persons % of industrial...

Written Answers — Employment Levels: Employment Levels (13 Dec 2005)

Tom Kitt: The exact information as requested by the Deputy is not available. Unemployment estimates are compiled at a regional level from the quarterly national household survey. The latest statistics show that there were 10,900 people classified as unemployed in the Border region in the June to August quarter of 2005. This equates to an unemployment rate of 5.1% for the Border region, which is...

Written Answers — Departmental Statistics: Departmental Statistics (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: The 2002 census of population shows that out of the total 1,279,617 private households in permanent housing units, some 3,835 contained more than two persons per room.

Written Answers — Limistéirí Gaeltachta: Limistéirí Gaeltachta (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: Tá an t-eolas atáá lorg ag an Teachta leagtha amach sa tábla thíos atá bunaithe ar thorthaí na ndaonáireamh a tógadh i 1991, 1996 agus 2002. Toisc an leagan amach a usáideadh ar an gceist maidir leis an nGaeilge i ndaonáireamh 1991, níl aon eolas ar fáil i leith líon na ndaoine a labhair an teanga go laethúil don bhliain sin. 1991 Limistéar Ghaeltachta Daonra Daonra 3+...

Written Answers — Marriage Statistics: Marriage Statistics (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: The number of marriages in civil services in Cork city registered from 2002 to 2005 was as follows: Year 2002 443 2003 432 2004 480 2005 537 Figures for 2003, 2004 and 2005 are provisional and subject to revision.

Written Answers — Foreign Trade: Foreign Trade (25 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: The information requested by the Deputy is not available within the CSO since the classification currently used to compile merchandise trade statistics does not identify goods according to the supply chain.

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (31 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: The CSO publishes annual figures on the estimated total earnings from all overseas visits to Ireland by non-residents and on the estimated expenditure by Irish residents on overseas visits. These figures include a breakdown into the following categories by reason for journey: business, holiday-leisure-recreation, visit to friends-relatives and other. The figures for overseas visits to Ireland...

Written Answers — Migrant Workers: Migrant Workers (31 Jan 2006)

Tom Kitt: Quarterly labour force estimates are compiled from the Quarterly National Household Survey. The table provides tentative estimates for persons in employment classified by nationality. The very significant flows of persons into the country in recent times present measurement challenges for a survey such as the QNHS. In this respect the nationality figures provided in the table should be...

Written Answers — Information Society Commission: Information Society Commission (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Kitt: Since 1997, the Government has established two successive Information Society Commissions to act as an independent advisory body to Government on matters relating to the information society. The first Information Society Commission was established by the Government in May 1997, in response to the report of Ireland's information society steering committee, entitled Information Society Ireland:...

Written Answers — Vehicle Sales: Vehicle Sales (8 Feb 2006)

Tom Kitt: Data on the number of new cars and other vehicles sold are not available from the CSO. However the CSO does publish data on the number of vehicles licensed in its annual release entitled "Vehicles Licensed for the first time". The details of new private cars and new other vehicles classes, including the classes goods vehicles, motor cycles, tractors, public service vehicles and others,...

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (21 Feb 2006)

Tom Kitt: The live register figures for the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon for the period 2001 to date as requested by the Deputy are set out in the following tables. The live register series gives a monthly breakdown of the number of people claiming unemployment assistance, unemployment benefit and other claimants registered with the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Figures are published...