295 Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, with regard to electrical contractors and the fact that a private company (details supplied) is calling on contractors and requesting to see their books and records, including payroll, she will confirm the way statutory authority would be given to a limited company to force employers to hand over their books and records in order that they carry out an inspection to see if the employees are in the pension scheme operated by the construction workers pension scheme and then report the matter to the Labour Court; if she had a role in promoting the CWPS to business people when they were setting up in business, in view of the fact that it has come to this Deputy’s attention that the Technical Engineering Union has suggested in correspondence that the details of this pension scheme are readily available through the Labour Court and her Department; if she is satisfied that when the Labour Court passes a complaint to the labour inspectorate of her Department as a result of an inspection carried out by the company which is a limited company with no statutory powers, that she should recommend prosecution; and if she is further satisfied that section 27(3)( c ) of the Industrial Relations Act 1946, has been fully met by the Labour Court and that all sides to the employment agreement between the Electrical Contracting Association and the Technical and Engineering Union, meet the criteria of substantially representing the majority of the employers and unions in the industry, particularly when this agreement was set up on 24 September 1990, and as at the latest review dated 11 May 2007. [19808/08]

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295 Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, with regard to electrical contractors and the fact that a private company (details supplied) is calling on contractors and requesting to see their books and records, including payroll, she will confirm the way statutory authority would be given to a limited company to force employers to hand over their books and records in order that they carry out an inspection to see if the employees are in the pension scheme operated by the construction workers pension scheme and then report the matter to the Labour Court; if she had a role in promoting the CWPS to business people when they were setting up in business, in view of the fact that it has come to this Deputy’s attention that the Technical Engineering Union has suggested in correspondence that the details of this pension scheme are readily available through the Labour Court and her Department; if she is satisfied that when the Labour Court passes a complaint to the labour inspectorate of her Department as a result of an inspection carried out by the company which is a limited company with no statutory powers, that she should recommend prosecution; and if she is further satisfied that section 27(3)( c ) of the Industrial Relations Act 1946, has been fully met by the Labour Court and that all sides to the employment agreement between the Electrical Contracting Association and the Technical and Engineering Union, meet the criteria of substantially representing the majority of the employers and unions in the industry, particularly when this agreement was set up on 24 September 1990, and as at the latest review dated 11 May 2007. [19808/08]

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