Written answers
Thursday, 17 June 2004
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- National Irish Bank Investigations
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the report of the High Court inspectors into the affairs of banks (details supplied) will be published.... - Job Creation
Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of new jobs announced during 2003 from new investments or expansion of IDA backed plants; the... - Job Losses
Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to her Department from 2000 to date; the projected numbers for 2004; and... - Radon Gas Levels
Question 15: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention was drawn to the potentially serious danger posed to workers from the presence of radon gas in... - Research and Development
Question 16: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the need to maintain investment in research and development; her views on the present state of... - Corporate Investigations
Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the further investigations that have taken place following the publication of the report of the inspectors... - Health and Safety Regulations
Question 18: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role her Department has in monitoring health and safety conditions for workers in national car testing... - Proposed Legislation
Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has considered the proposal to introduce legislation to provide for a new offence of corporate killing... - Motor Insurance
Question 20: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department analysed the system of motor insurance in New Zealand where a special insurance levy is added... - Arms Trade
Question 21: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention was drawn to the recent report published by Amnesty International on the manufacture here of... - Job Creation
Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that are being taken to find replacement jobs for the Rathdrum area of County Wicklow following... - Employment Schemes
Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed on JI schemes in each of the past three years; and the numbers expected to be... - Corporate Investigations
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on the recent report of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. [18046/04] - Community Employment Schemes
Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment about the analysis of community employment schemes commissioned or undertaken by her Department; their... - Drink Prices
Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention was drawn to the decision of a firm (details supplied) to impose price increases that are... - Price Regulations
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she intends to make the promised order under the Consumer Affairs Act to require doctors, dentists and... - WTO Negotiations
Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department contacted the EU Trade Commissioner and the World Trade Organisation on the resumption of the... - EU Directives
Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which her Department has responsibility that have yet to be implemented; the... - Oil Prices
Question 30: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department has carried out a review of the implications for industrial policy here of the doubling of... - EU Directives
Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main features of the new consumer initiative agreed among member states on 18 May. [18049/04] - Groceries Order
Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she will publish the results of her review of the 1987 Groceries Order that forbids below cost selling.... - Job Losses
Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of industrial jobs her Department expects will be lost here in 2004; the reasons for the losses; and... - Insurance Industry
Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which motor and public liability insurance here is higher than in most other EU countries; the... - Work Permits
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the recent report published by the Migrant Rights Centre, Ireland regarding... - Departmental Investigations
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total costs incurred by the State, at the latest date for which figures are available, arising from the... - Price Inflation
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that her Department is taking to monitor prices and report excessive price increases in light of... - Work Permits
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of work permits issued to date under the new arrangements to give access to employment to the... - Job Creation
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the concerns of Enterprise Ireland concerning the effect that the suspension of the business... - Trade Union Recognition
Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IBEC, or representatives of IBEC, have raised the issue if trade union recognition with her since 1997; and... - Health and Safety Regulations
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position with regard to her consultation with the social partners on proposals to increase penalties for... - Partnership Agreements
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will commission a study of the numbers of workers who have not benefited fully from each national pay... - Economic Competitiveness
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made by the monitoring process established to consider and track progress in implementing the... - Industrial Relations
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the call from the trade union Mandate for action to outlaw trading by major... - Industrial Development
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans the Government has to find a replacement industry to locate in the former plant of a company (details... - Departmental Investigations
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has received a preliminary report from the Director of Corporate Enforcement into reports of improper... - Consumer Protection
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will consider amending the Pyramid Selling Act 1980 to outlaw so-called gifting schemes specifically;... - Job Protection
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to the commitment in the programme for Government to review the ways in which older persons can be... - Job Losses
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the claim made by the Small Firms' Association that the country was on track... - Research Funding
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made in finalising the European Union's sixth framework programme for research and... - European Council Meetings
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the outcome of the most recent meeting of the Employment Council which was held in Luxembourg; the... - Work Permits
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the promised legislation to put the employment permit regime on a comprehensive and sound statutory... - Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position with regard to the operation of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; the number of staff... - County Enterprise Boards
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide additional funding to efficient county enterprise boards; and if she will make a statement... - Decentralisation Programme
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department has yet carried out a risk assessment of the decentralisation plans announced on budget day... - EU Directives
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on whether the new EU regulations designed to cut the price of spare car parts introduced as part of... - Interdepartmental Committees
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the interdepartmental committees her Department is engaged in with regard to energy policy issues here; the... - Decentralisation Programme
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any survey that has been undertaken in regard to proposals for decentralisation to establish the... - Employment Support Services
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed by trade unions, commercial firms in the... - Criminal Prosecutions
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Questions Nos. 128, 129 and 130 of 18 May 2004, her views on whether allegations of fraud... - Insurance Industry
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the urgent consultations on making employers liability insurance compulsory, promised in the Joint... - Unemployment Levels
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives she proposes in order to address the incidence of unemployment in north Monaghan, particularly... - Flexible Work Practices
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts her Department has made to encourage employers to allow employees extended career breaks to look... - Chemicals Regulation
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, of the 30,000 chemicals in current use here and in the EU generally; she will list those that are and are... - Insurance Industry
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has plans to tackle the huge cost of public liability insurance, which is inhibiting plans to increase... - Work Permits
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government's policy in regard to the grant of work permits to persons already married to work permit... - Economic Competitiveness
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on whether the economic growth model for the economy here is unduly dependent on foreign direct... - Research Funding
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of their outlay devoted to research and development by firms here by comparison with the... - National Minimum Wage
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the minimum wage per hour and the equivalent hourly minimum wage in each other OECD country. [18207/04] - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on Ireland's ranking in the global entrepreneurship monitor report 2001. [18211/04] - Health and Safety Regulations
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the inspections which have been carried out by the Health and Safety Authority on the national car testing... - Services Sector
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken or proposes to take to counter rip-off price increases; and if she will make a... - Economic Competitiveness
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her proposals to address the issue of increased lack of competitiveness in the economy; and if she will make a... - Insurance Industry
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she or her Department has investigated the negative impact of high insurance costs here; and if she will... - Industrial Development
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the new markets that have been opened up to exporters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18226/04] - Work Permits
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits applied for in each of the past six months; the number approved, rejected or...
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