Written answers

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

 
  • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
    477. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department is monitoring the current Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks currently underway in Washington DC;...
  • Company Law
    478. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he or officials in his Department have discussed changing current legislation dealing with the disclosure of profits by supermarket...
  • Industrial Relations Issues
    479. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to legislate for collective bargaining through the trade unions as contained in the programme for Government; and if he will...
  • Consumer Protection
    480. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider introducing legislation to give effect to a cooling-off period for the purchase of goods or services that arise...
  • Health and Safety Issues
    481. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the increasing amount of farm accidents this year, his views on whether a new campaign highlighting the need for increased...
  • Exports Data
    483. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Irish chemical industry has supplied chemical materials to Syria in the past 20 years. [38739/13]
  • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
    484. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if targeted measures will be introduced to increase working capital in small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement...
  • Work Permit Applications
    485. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding an application for an employment permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he...
  • IDA Supports
    486. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of performance reviews of employment grants conducted by the Industrial Development Agency that found that posts for which...
  • IDA Job Numbers
    487. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency for which a third level qualification is required for each year since...
  • IDA Supports
    489. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available to the aviation leasing industry; the drawdown of these supports and the number employed in this sector. [36902/13]
  • Enterprise Support Schemes
    490. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his proposals to obtain markets for Irish manufacturing and professional service companies in the Middle East and North Africa; if...
  • Immigration Policy
    492. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the conditions attached to Croatians in relation to access to the labour market here following the enactment of the European Union...
  • Industrial Development
    493. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits carried out by the Industrial Development Agency to County Wicklow to date in 2013; if they were accompanied by...
  • Legislative Process
    494. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the parties, in addition to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel in the Office of the Attorney General, involved in the drafting of the...
  • Trade Missions Issues
    495. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the outcomes of his five day trade and investment mission to China and Japan in July 2013; and if he...
  • Job Initiatives
    496. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any special initiatives will be undertaken by his Department or the State's industrial promotion agencies to assist in the...
  • Trade Data
    497. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline Ireland's economic and trade co-operation with Morocco; if he will provide a breakdown in the annual trading...
  • Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure
    498. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the funding allocated through the microenterprise loan fund scheme through Microfinance Ireland for a particular area...
  • Labour Court Recommendations
    500. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason a company (details supplied) in County Offaly is allowed to refuse to recognise a Labour Court recommendation that the...
  • Proposed Legislation
    501. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the consumer protection and competition Bill; if he will clarify if the legal drafting has been...
  • Departmental Functions
    502. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he intends to move or relocate the Employment Permits Section of his Department and align it with the Irish Naturalisation and...
  • Work Permit Criteria
    503. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that there is an adequate degree of separation between the Deciding Officers in his Department on matters of Employment...
  • Work Permit Application Numbers
    504. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of work permits granted by his Department in each year from 2007 to present; if he will tabulate the nationalities of the...
  • EU Meetings
    505. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the parameters of the discussions held with Ministerial colleagues at the Informal Competitiveness Council meeting in Vilnius,...
  • Work Permit Criteria
    506. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will review the highly skilled occupations list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37455/13]
  • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
    507. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total cost of all media advertising to his Department for each of the past five years; the efforts his Department is making to...
  • Ministerial Appointments
    508. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of all bodies, boards or committees under the remit of his Department to which ministerial appointments are...
  • IDA Expenditure
    511. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports the Industrial Development Agengy or his Department give to a company (details supplied) that recently announced its...
  • Product Labelling
    512. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current legal standing for products sold to Ireland to have country of origin on their labelling; if products are permitted to...
  • Trade Agreements
    513. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will discuss the recent EU trade deals that took effect with Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama; if he will detail the bilateral...
  • Employment Rights Issues
    514. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will clarify the legality of zero contracts under Irish employment law; whether or not they are permissible; if so, if he will...
  • Work Permit Applications
    515. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a work permit application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Ministerial Correspondence
    516. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has had communication from a company (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he has received any information from the company...
  • Job Creation Numbers
    517. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs that have been created in the digital gaming sector here in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Capital Programme Expenditure
    518. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail by name, location and cost the number of capital projects funded by his Department for each of the past five years...
  • Exports Growth
    519. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to encourage and enable indigenous Irish firms to export to Latin America particularly in the context of that...
  • Innovation Vouchers Initiative
    520. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and aggregate value of innovation vouchers expended to date in 2013; and if there are any plans to extend and augment this...
  • Registered Employment Agreements
    521. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will update his response to Parliamentary Question No. 344 of 25 June 2013 regarding the recent Supreme Court decision upholding...
  • IDA Site Visits
    522. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline on a county basis the total number of Industrial Development Agency visits to each county in 2012 and to the end of...
  • Departmental Staff Recruitment
    524. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps his Department intend to take to ensure semi-State bodies and other organisations and bodies under the remit of his...
  • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
    525. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the full year saving to the Exchequer if all salaries of the CEOs of non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his...

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