Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date by the European Commission's group of national experts, involving officials from his Department, on the implementation of the posting of workers directive; the reason no specific transposition measures have been adopted to date; his response to the observation of the European Commission that such an approach does not conform to the criteria established by the case law of the Court of Justice on the transposition of directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11275/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Officials from my Department's employment rights section have participated in all five meetings of the European Commission's group of national experts on the implementation of the posting of workers directive, since October 2003 when the group was first established. The group's mandate is to foster practical co-operation between EU member states regarding implementation of the directive. Further meetings of the group will take place during 2006. The contributions of the officials in question are informed by a knowledge of the law, of Government policy and of experience of the operation of the directive.

The mandatory provisions of the posting of workers directive were transposed fully and robustly into Irish law by section 20 of the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001. At none of the meetings of the expert group did the European Commission suggest that Ireland had not transposed the directive properly.