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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: My Department provides funding, through Enterprise Ireland, to the 31 Local Enterprise Offices. The level of funding is allocated based on a distribution model where 70% of the funds are divided equally among the 31 Local Enterprise Offices and the remainder is distributed proportionately, based on the population banding of the Local Authorities. Capital funding is used to support...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: My Department is committed to creating sustainable employment right across the country and through our enterprise development agencies we are continuing to positively contribute to employment growth in all regions of the country. The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Policy Statement, which I launched last year, sets out how, through a variety of programmes and campaigns, LEOs foster a strong...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Government is committed to supporting small businesses across the country and to supporting job creation, both of which the Local Enterprise Offices play a key role in. The LEOs play an extremely important role at local level, as part of a supportive ecosystem, providing their services direct to small businesses and promoting entrepreneurship within towns and communities across the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising disruption to Ireland’s labour market. The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 864 and 865 together. The Smart Regions Enterprise Innovation Scheme ("Smart Regions") was launched in October 2023 and is the current funding model for enterprise infrastructure, including IT infrastructure. One of the goals of the scheme is to deliver targeted infrastructure that benefits local businesses who make use of locations such as the Killarney...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Smart Regions Enterprise Innovation Scheme is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and administered by Enterprise Ireland. The scheme includes four streams supporting development and provision of local enterprise infrastructure, innovation clusters and consortia, innovation services to SMEs, and early-stage feasibility and priming research. The Smart Regions...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: With the support of my Department, Enterprise Ireland (EI) and the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are committed to helping a diverse range of business models that contribute to innovation, employment, and economic growth in Ireland. This includes co-operatives and worker co-operatives, provided they meet the core eligibility criteria of the relevant support schemes. These programmes are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: In 2024, Enterprise Ireland-supported companies achieved exports of €6.6 billion to the USA, up 8% on 2023. The USA is the third largest export territory for Enterprise Ireland clients, after Europe (€10.63bn exports) and the UK (€10.52bn exports). Client exports to the USA, equate to 18% of total exports. The export figures for EI clients for 2025 will not be available...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Economic Growth (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Programme for Government commits to considering the development of economic Strategic Development Zones (SDZs) in the regions. This commitment is one element of the broader work in relation to the planning system in my Department, including its contributions to the recently published first revision of the National Planning Framework. The consideration of regional economic SDZs takes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Programme for Government 2025 sets out a number of commitments to support SMEs. One of these commitments is to establish a Cost of Business Advisory Forum. The first meeting of the Forum took place on the 11th of June where numerous organisations representing the Ireland’s enterprise sector were joined by officials from a variety of State Agencies and Government Departments....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising disruption to Ireland’s labour market. The system is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages required to develop and support enterprise for the benefit of our economy. However, this objective...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: Microfinance Ireland is funded through periodic capital injections from the Exchequer, which are administered via the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. These funds are utilised on a revolving basis, whereby loan repayments received from borrowers are reinvested to support ongoing lending activity. This approach ensures the sustainability of the Microenterprise Loan Fund...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: There is a suite of Occupational Safety and Health legislation, listed below, that is applicable to workplaces including nail salons.Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005 requires employers to provide a safe place of work. It provides the legal framework for managing workplace health and safety and sets out duties for both employers and employees.Safety, Health and Welfare at Work...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: I propose to take Questions Nos. 888 and 889 together. Enterprise Ireland’s (EI) strategy, ‘Delivering for Ireland, Leading Globally’, is focused on enabling Irish businesses to start, scale, compete, and connect. Central to this strategy is the ambition that Irish-owned exporting companies become the primary engine of Ireland’s economic growth. In delivering...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for a minimum statutory redundancy payment to eligible employees. An eligible employee is entitled to two weeks' pay for every year of service plus one additional week's pay, with weekly pay capped at €600 per week. The €600 per week salary cap has applied since 2005. In order to be eligible for a statutory redundancy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising disruption to Ireland’s labour market. The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The classification of dinitrogen oxide as a reproductive toxicity category 1B (Repr. 1B) will trigger restriction obligations under Article 67 of the REACH Regulation, when the substance is added to Entry 30 of Annex XVII. Consequently, sale of the substance to the general public will be prohibited unless a specific derogation is provided. At the December 2024 CARACAL meeting, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Enterprise Ireland (EI) Action Plan for Women in Business was launched in 2020 to influence fundamental and lasting change to the overall enterprise landscape. It incorporates four objectives:Increasing the number of women-led companies growing on international markets.Increasing the number of women in middle and senior management and leadership roles in Irish companies.Increasing the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: The Enterprise Ireland (EI) Action Plan for Women in Business was launched in 2020 to influence fundamental and lasting change to the overall enterprise landscape. It incorporates four objectives:Increasing the number of women-led companies growing on international markets.Increasing the number of women in middle and senior management and leadership roles in Irish companies.Increasing the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Jul 2025)

Alan Dillon: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising disruption to Ireland’s labour market. The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot...