Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 185: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expedite a decision on the application for a work visa for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 who is currently enrolled in a degree programme and who is required to undertake work experience as part of the course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40753/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Work Permits Section of my Department informs me that they have no record of a work permit application in this case.

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 186: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the number of applications for a work permit by a company (details supplied) to employ an individual who is legally resident here on a student visa, that this permit application has been repeatedly refused on the grounds that it is not permitted to transfer from a student visa to a work permit, which is in violation of his Departments policy as stated at his Department's website and that the most recent application for a work permit pointed this out, but was ignored; and if he will, as a matter of urgency, approve the application for this person who has been waiting over five months for a work permit and whose employer is eager for them to take up employment. [40809/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Work Permits Section of my Department informs me that this application was refused on the basis that the above named individual entered the State to pursue a course of studies and is therefore not entitled to enter full time employment. Having heard an appeal in this case the original decision was up held.

However, it should be noted that students attending recognized programmes of study are entitled to work twenty hours per week during term time and forty hours per week during holidays without, at present, the need for a work permit.