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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (18 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The Department of Health is the lead Department responsible for the negotiations of the EU Pharmaceutical Strategy and Revision of the General Pharmaceutical Legislation. In 2023, to ensure a whole-of-government view, the then Minister for Health established a cross-Government and cross-agency group – the Pharmaceutical Strategy Working Group (PSWG) - of which my Department is a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the Programme for Government and the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a key focus of the work of my Department and IDA Ireland. In this respect, IDA Ireland recently launched its new five-year strategy 2025–2029 Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation, which seeks to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the Programme for Government and in the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a key focus of the work of my Department and IDA Ireland. In this respect, IDA Ireland recently launched its new five-year strategy 2025–2029 Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation, which seeks...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Takeovers (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Wellman International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Indorama Ventures PCL, one of the world’s leading petrochemical producers and a leading global manufacturer of wool yarns. The broader Indorama Group is based in Bangkok, Thailand. As the Deputy will be aware, Wellman International Ltd, Mullagh, County Cavan produces polyester staple fibres, made primarily from recycled...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 352, 349 and 350 together. There has been a significant long-term shift in attitudes to remote work, and flexible working arrangements more broadly, amongst both employers and workers throughout the country since the pandemic. Acceptance of remote, hybrid and flexible working is high, and the evidence suggests that they are here to stay. The Work Life...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The sudden onset of widespread remote working during the pandemic has led to a broader acceptance by employers and workers of remote working as a viable long-term option with remote and hybrid working arrangements having become a new normal for many workers. The Government is committed to facilitating remote working in a way which maximises its economic, social and environmental benefits. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department collects employment data on the enterprise agency supported companies annually. This information is available on my Department's website. Using that data together with national statistics from the Central Statistics Office, the table below sets out the response to the deputies question. I trust that this is helpful for the deputy. Table 1: Employment in Ireland, 2019-2024 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department collects employment data on the enterprise agency supported companies annually. Using this data together with national statistics collected by the Central Statistics Office, the table below sets out the response to the deputy's question. I trust this is helpful for the deputy. Table 1: Employment in Ireland, 2019 - 2024 2019Q4 2020Q4 2021Q4...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Post Office Network (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: As you are aware, the second payment of the ICOB grant and the Power Up grant were specifically targeted at businesses in the retail, hospitality and beauty sectors only. In order to classify business sectors for the second ICOB payment and the Power Up grant, the Department uses NACE codes to provide a comprehensive sectoral breakdown of the Irish economy. The NACE Coder is a European...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The Life-Sciences sector - which includes pharma, biopharma and medtech – remains a cornerstone of Ireland’s industrial success, driving significant exports, and attracting foreign and indigenous investments in R&D, capital expenditure and employment. It currently accounts for over 100,000 jobs and over €130billion in exports. Over recent decades Ireland has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The ICT Unit in my Department has informed me that they do not use UTM parameters to specifically track sources. However, the website analytics tool used by the Department does have some inbuilt Campaign Source tracking. Reports generated by the analytics tool do not indicate any visits from ChatGPT prior to November 2024. From November 2024 onwards the monthly visits reported were: ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the Programme for Government and the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a key focus of the work of my Department and IDA Ireland. IDA Ireland’s five-year strategy ‘Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation 2025–29’, seeks to support continued...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department did not engage any communications or PR firms in 2024 and therefore no costs were incurred for these services. Please note that any contracts awarded for these services in respect of the bodies under my Department’s remit is an operational matter for those bodies, and I do not have any direct function in these matters.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Government provides exchequer funding to Fáilte Ireland which is used to support tourism product development such as developing and upgrading visitor experiences. There are no schemes which provide grants for baby changing facilities in tourism businesses. However, Fáilte Ireland does consider the inclusion of accessible facilities when it is investing in tourism product...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Judicial Reviews (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The information requested is currently being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The estimated cost to the exchequer associated with the recent change of name and change of functions of my Department is €5,183.94 excl. VAT. My Department generally procures goods and services in cases where there is not the necessary expertise to deliver the project in-house, where it is deemed essential, or in cases where a project must be completed within a short time scale,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department and the bodies under its aegis are committed to providing an efficient, timely, professional, and courteous service to all our customers. The tables below list the contact details at which members of the Oireachtas can contact the bodies under the aegis of my Department. Agency Email Phone Competition and Consumer Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Funding (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: It has been a long standing policy objective to ensure that all regions of Ireland benefit from tourism growth. My role and that of my Department in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national tourism policy development and in securing resources to assist the tourism agencies, Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland, in implementing that policy. In this regard a new Tourism...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Policy (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 103 and 104 together. The introduction of a visitor accommodation levy was proposed in , the Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare published in September 2022 and, more recently, in , the report of the Dublin City Taskforce published in October 2024, specifically for Dublin City. In the case of the latter, the mooted levy was presented as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (11 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 105 and 106 together. Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the Programme for Government and the White Paper on Enterprise and is a key focus of the work of my Department and its agencies, including the IDA. The new IDA Ireland Strategy "Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation...