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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Farm Safety (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee (FSPAC) is an advisory committee to the Board of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and established under Section 38 of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. The Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee was established to involve all industry stakeholders in improving occupational safety and health in the Agriculture sector. Its...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you are aware, as part of Budget 2024, the government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE), are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages includes two key areas: Minimum Wages, and Collective Bargaining. The Directive requires Ireland to develop an action plan to enhance collective bargaining coverage by the end of 2025. The Directive must be transposed into Irish law by 15th November 2024. My Department has received legal advice on the minimum wage elements of the Directive that...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: I would recommend that anyone looking to start their own business or become self employed to first speak with their Local Enterprise Office (LEO). The Cavan LEO is located in the Cavan Innovation and Technology Centre, Dublin Road, Cavan. The Monaghan LEO is located in Unit 9, M:TEK Building, Knockaconny, Monaghan. The LEOs are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you are aware, as part of Budget 2024, the government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE), are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: Responsibility for the Childcare sector comes under the remit of my colleague the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O'Gorman. There is a Joint Labour Committee (JLC) in place for the Early Learning and Childcare sector. Joint Labour Committees are independent in their functions. On the 7th September 2022 the then Minister of State for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As I have already set out for the Deputy, the Sick Leave Act which commenced on 1 January 2023 provided an initial statutory entitlement of 3 days which increased to 5 days on 1 January 2024. This will potentially increase to 7 days in 2025 and 10 days in 2026. Payment by employers to employees for statutory sick leave days is currently set at 70% of an employee’s average gross...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The LEEF Subgroup on the implementation of the High Level working Group's recommendations met on 29 June 2023 and 16 November 2023. Updates on these issues were also provided at the LEEF plenary meeting with social partners on 20 November 2023 and 26 February 2024. In addition to the LEEF plenary and subgroup discussions, a technical working group has been established this year with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Private Members Bill on Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) is sponsored by the Deputy (and Deputies Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny). It is a matter for the Deputies to progress the Bill. At the Second Stage debate on the Bill, the former Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien English, clearly...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that the General Employment Permit applications for the persons concerned in the details supplied were received on 5th April 2024. On 10th April 2024 the applications were formally accepted and placed in the processing queue. Applications for employment permits are dealt with in date order. As of 12th April 2024, the Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that all applications for employment permits are dealt with in date order. Details of the current processing dates are available on the Departments website and are also outlined in the reply to the TD’s other PQ 17286/24. In order to maintain the relevance of the employment permits occupational lists and to ensure that the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that as of 15th of April 2024, the number of new employment permit applications awaiting processing is 2,779. The number of applications being processed is 465 and the number of applications awaiting payment of the fee is 194. Therefore the total number of applications in the processing queue as of 15th April 2024 is 3,244. All...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (17 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware that, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (17 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: Balanced regional enterprise development is a key focus for me and this Government as reaffirmed in the White Paper on Enterprise. My Department contributes to this agenda in several ways, including through the development, implementation and oversight of nine Regional Enterprise Plans (REPs). The North-East REP is implemented at a regional level by a Steering Committee made up of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (17 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: As you will be aware, as part of Budget 2024, the Government signed off on a package of €257 million for the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant as a vital measure for small and medium businesses. Local Authorities, funded through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, are administering the grant to qualifying businesses on behalf of the Department. Local...