Fine Gael TD for Kildare South Martin Heydon has welcomed the passing of legislation to create the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) which will make available additional credit to Irish SMEs. Its establishment will facilitate access to national and international sources of funding and then to […]
Fine Gael TD for Kildare South Martin Heydon, has welcomed this week’s announcement by Minister Richard Bruton TD, of Government approval for the Workplace Relations Bill 2014, which will reduce from five to two, the number of workplace relations bodies in the State.
“I strongly welcome this move to merge five State […]
Fine Gael TD for Kildare South Martin Heydon, today (Friday) welcomed the publication of the Regional Aid Map by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD. This map details areas of the country in which the State can provide investment aid to businesses in order to support new investment and employment, under […]
My contribution to the live session of the 2014 Ard Fheis on Jobs is attached here. I focussed on the need to encourage indigenous Irish industry and concentrate on areas we are good at such as Agribusiness. The Sugar Beet Industry is a good example of this.
Fine Gael TD for Kildare South Martin Heydon has this week described the announcement of €12.5bn of rural development funding as a significant investment in rural Ireland and a vote of confidence in the agricultural and food sectors. The investment, a combination of EU Common Agricultural Funding with National Exchequer funding was confirmed by Taoiseach […]
Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, Martin Heydon, has today (Wednesday) expressed his regret at the announcement by Pfizer that it is seeking 150 redundancies in 2014 at the company’s Newbridge facility.
“My thoughts are with the workers and their families at Pfizer’s Newbridge facility who are affected by today’s announcement and […]
Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, Martin Heydon, has welcomed the announcement by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) that 58,000 jobs have been created in the private sector in the last 12 months. Government’s Action Plan for Jobs is creating the conditions whereby almost 5,000 jobs per month are now being created in Ireland. Deputy […]
Kildare South Fine Gael TD Martin Heydon is encouraging employers to consider the Jobs Plus Incentive scheme when hiring new full time staff. The new scheme which went live on July 1st, will incentivize and reward employers who employ jobseekers from the live Register.
“The new Jobs Plus scheme replaces two previous schemes which had proven […]
Kildare South Fine Gael TD Martin Heydon has today (Wednesday) welcomed the announcement by Tegral of 29 new jobs at its plant in Athy.
“Today’s announcement is a great boost to the town and is a huge vote of confidence in the Athy plant and the work of its employees. The investment of €1.5m by Tegral’s […]
Deadline for implementation imminent with no agreement in place
Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, Martin Heydon, has today (Thursday) called for trade unions to stop being reckless and agree a qualifying period to the EU Temporary Agency Workers Directive.
Speaking in the Dáil yesterday, Deputy Heydon said: ‘The trade union movement is playing Russian […]