Results 681-700 of 8,016 for speaker:Peter Burke
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I regret the premise of the Deputy's question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: The premise of her question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Which I agree with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Let us be very clear here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: -----we have industrial relations machinery available and it is working.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: The agencies have intervened. The Deputy should please let both parties engage constructively today in an independent manner. That approach has served the State well, and both companies, in the preceding days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Does Deputy O'Reilly have a suggestion for a plan B?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I am very clear on my position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: It is very dangerous to put forward-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: -----this mentality that the Government has magic solutions available. It is very easy to apply-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: -----very simple language to complex situations. I want to be very clear that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: -----we will let the Labour Court do its job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: The Labour Court is dealing with the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: First, Enterprise Ireland has achieved a record level of exports. There are approximately €34.5 billion of exports, of which 71% are outside the UK market. If we look broadly at where they are coming from, we can see steady growth in the eurozone region. Germany in particular has grown by double figures. It is up 14%. We are steadily growing our export market. We have seen...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: There are smaller players working through Enterprise Ireland as well. We have a service level agreement with our local enterprise offices, LEOs. We are trying to increase the number of smaller companies exporting into the marketplace and we are giving them the tools to do that. That is why we have a strong vehicle in Enterprise Ireland whereby any smaller enterprise that is trying to get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Absolutely. We are looking to set a target of 9% for SMEs with employees, which will be an increase from the current level of 6%. We are working through our strategy to do that with the LEOs, in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland. We anticipate very fertile growth because from our engagement with other markets, through the State agencies, the increase is very significant in many areas....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: No. In the White Paper on Enterprise we have a strict focus on digitalisation, decarbonisation and innovation. We have a target in our plan to get basic digital intensity to 90% of all SMEs by 2030. There is a huge amount of work under way to achieve that. We have put together a very significant funding package of €58 million for the digital transition fund. We have also...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Our innovation voucher scheme with tertiary education has been increased for SMEs by up to €10,000 to try to form partnerships. If it is a small, manufacturing process, they could examine how they could innovate and improve their productivity. Those grants are important to help the smaller industries and SMEs, some of which are just around the kitchen table. There are so many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: We fund innovation offices and knowledge offices through our third level education tertiary links. That is important for enterprise because once the links are established and the connection is there, the Government is able to fund the streams and then they can provide vouchers right to the SME client. They can set out what issue they need help with and what area they need assistance with...