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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: A digital copy of the Ministerial briefing document provided by my Department to myself and to the Ministers of State is available on enterprise.gov.ie at the following link: On January 29, the Government, upon the nomination of the Taoiseach, formally appointed Ministers of State and assigned their responsibilities. In respect of my Department, Niamh Smyth TD has been appointed Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland was made aware of the potential upcoming job losses at Meta on 14th January after a call with the company, where Meta informed IDA Ireland of a public announcement later that day by the Meta CEO impacting global jobs at the company. The company informed IDA Ireland that the method of identifying the roles of those at risk was to use an internal performance review process. My...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The strategic direction of any business, including the company the Deputy is referring to, is ultimately a matter for the company itself. Businesses must continuously adapt to global market conditions, technological advancements, and shareholder expectations. However, how a company chooses to conduct its business can have a significant impact on its brand, reputation, and relationships with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Investments by IDA Ireland client companies consistently generate highly skilled jobs throughout the country. Employment levels in the IDA Ireland client base have remained above 300,000 for three consecutive years, demonstrating a strong employment base that strategically positions the economy for further growth. The 2024 employment figure of 302,566 accounts for almost 11% of overall...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In the time available, it has not been possible to provide a response to the Deputy's question. I will arrange for a response to be provided to the Deputy once this is available.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Given the significance of property to the winning of FDI investments into regional locations, and owing to ongoing market challenges, IDA’s continued positive intervention in terms of delivering and maintaining a portfolio of advanced property solutions remains paramount. In that regard, a ready supply of available zoned land for sale and development together with appropriate building...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the Power Up grant. My...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The AI Advisory Council was established by Minister Dara Calleary in January 2024 to provide independent expert advice to government on artificial intelligence policy. Its members represent a spectrum of experience and expertise from academia, business, law, security, social sciences, economics and civil society. The Council is a mechanism for providing expert advice and not a general...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the Power Up grant. My...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The strategic direction of any business, including the company the Deputy is referring to, is ultimately a matter for the company itself. Businesses must continuously adapt to global market conditions, technological advancements, and shareholder expectations. However, how a company chooses to conduct its business can have a significant impact on its brand, reputation, and relationships with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy. I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 , 19 and 20 together. In total, the increased cost of business and power up grant schemes paid out a very significant sum, totalling more than €400 million, to support SMEs throughout the country. This total of €400 million included €154 million in the first phase of ICOB, €90 million in the second phase...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: It is obviously critical that businesses get the support that they need and qualify for. We are working with the Department of public expenditure and reform on rectifying the issue relating to the misclassification. It is critical to demonstrate how much this Government is supporting our SME sector. The forthcoming programme for Government outlines changes we will be implementing in VAT...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: We are working on the reclassification issue.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I would be happy to. We see four growth areas at this time. First is digital. We are trying, in line with the White Paper on enterprise, to get to 90% digital intensity by 2030. In healthcare, cell and gene therapy is a huge growth area, as well as other healthcare mechanisms. We hope to bring AI into that sphere, which will be key. In sustainability, we have had about 93 investments...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for his warm remarks and his important question on Cork County Council. The ongoing replenishment of stock is essential to ensuring the portfolio remains fit-for-purpose and meets the evolving needs of the FDI, Enterprise Ireland and LEO client base. A ready supply of appropriately zoned land for development is required for IDA to fulfil its remit and continued success in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The Deputy raises a valid point and that is why we are launching in the coming weeks Enterprise Ireland's new strategy for the next five years. We need a stronger relationship with Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to make sites available to smaller indigenous enterprises which have grown significantly in recent years. I have raised this with the Department and my fellow Ministers. It is an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I would be happy to facilitate a meeting with Deputy Moynihan and to work on the land banks that need to be made available through Údarás na Gaeltachta or Enterprise Ireland for smaller agencies. It is something we need to improve upon. I would be happy to work with the Deputy in that regard. I do not have specific figures on the work carried out with Údarás but I will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy Connolly for her intervention. A lot of the new EU instruments that are coming into context, and which this plan will have to respond to, are very technical in nature and we are trying to work these and bring them into the action plan. A significant number of the actions contained in this plan are under the purview of other Departments so obviously we are trying to work and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: It is this Government that brought forward the idea in the programme for Government to deliver on this because we take our human rights obligations very seriously. One can see that from all our actions in multilateral forums, particularly the UN. I met Volker Türk, the head of UN human rights, on many occasions in my last brief. We take very seriously our obligations. With regard...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I will endeavour to come back to the Deputy with a timeline as soon as I can get a clear line of sight across government as to when we can deliver it. I do not want to come forward with a plan that I cannot deliver, or which does not have actionable points or delivery dates on it. That is the most important point that I want to have as a stamp of my Ministry.