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Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: I offer my sympathies to Gillian and Stephen, parents of the late Harvey, for their inconsolable loss. This debate is brought to us by Aontú, by a party that is absolutely bankrupt of ideas. We heard its leader, Deputy Peadar Tóibín, on "Morning Ireland" this morning bemoaning the fact that he has had only two or three opportunities to table Private Members' business in this...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: -----bring forward a new vision? Absolutely not.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The first thing Aontú has done is brought the nuclear option and tried to pull down the Government, with parties that are providing solutions together for these families. When I was appointed Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, the then Taoiseach, Deputy Simon Harris, immediately said we need to reset and focus on family businesses. Since then, in the first eight weeks we...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Enterprise, Tourism and Employment): Statements (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: I welcome the opportunity to address Senators today and make a few comments regarding budget 2026, particularly the budget measures that relate to my own Department. Budget 2026 is a strongly pro-jobs, pro-enterprise budget. The signal has gone out that Ireland is a fantastic place in which to do business, to scale and to invest. We must ensure that our economy and workforce continue to...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Enterprise, Tourism and Employment): Statements (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank the Acting Chairperson and all 14 Senators for their contributions and the points they raised. I will just touch on a few of the points. Certain themes went through a number of the points. First of all, Senator Linda Nelson Murray made excellent points about SMEs. We all know that small family businesses employ about two-thirds of people across the country and they do not have HR...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Enterprise, Tourism and Employment): Statements (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for that intervention. We are price-takers in the market. That is a big issue in power. We have set up the national affordability task force and the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, is trying to ensure that as we invest in our grid, we make the user pay less. In the new capital programme, PR6, we are investing about €18 billion in improving our transmission and grid...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The amount spent by my Department on external consultancy contracts; which include reports, surveys, and research services commissioned under my Department’s AD7 Consultancy Budget, for the past five years is set out in tabular form below. ICT consultancy reports are also included for completeness. For each year listed below, consultancy services were procured in cases where there...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Equipment (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department's records indicate that, in the period in question the following number of laptops or mobile phones have been reported as lost or stolen:All laptops and iPhones are encrypted. The loss of an encrypted device is not regarded as a data loss incident. Year Device Theft / Loss 2021 Laptop x2 Lost 2022...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The ICT Unit in my Department has informed me that they have not procured any software or ICT systems which were later deemed unfit for purpose. The ICT Unit has a Project Management Office which was set up to provide project oversight and to ensure project governance is adhered to. I have asked the Agencies under my remit to update me on this matter and a response will be sent to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: This information is not collected by my Department. To the best of my knowledge, this data is also not collected by the Central Statistics Office. More generally, matters relating to international capital flows fall within the remit of the Department of Finance and the Central Bank of Ireland. Issues concerning housing investment and related policy areas, are a matter for the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The latest data available from the Residential Tenancies Board for Q2 2025 shows that there has been an increase in the total number of landlords to 104,072 – up from 103,823 in Q2 2024 and 96,702 in Q2 2023. Focusing on the number of landlords with a smaller number of tenancies (under 3 tenancies) – there has been an increase in the number of landlords in this category from...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Programmes (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Programme for Government 2025 includes a commitment to establish five new national level cluster organisations. This echoes the commitment in respect of clustering in the White Paper on Enterprise, which recognised clustering as an enterprise policy tool to improve national competitiveness by building clusters of national scale with international visibility. Last month my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (9 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department, through Enterprise Ireland, funds the Commercialisation Fund as a means of developing deep tech start-ups as part of the larger goal of improving the competitiveness of the Irish economy. This Fund plays a key role in supporting the transformation of publicly funded research into commercially viable products and services. In terms of reviewing the Commercialisation Fund,...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: This is a strongly pro-jobs and pro-enterprise budget. The signal has gone out that Ireland is a fantastic place to do business, to scale up and to invest in. Our economy and workforce must continue to reap the benefits. The budget demonstrates the Government’s commitment to ensure that our economy delivers for our citizens and supports our people and businesses through investment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: As identified in Silicon Island-Ireland's National Semiconductor Strategy, Government is acutely aware of the strategic imperative to position Ireland as a competitive location for semiconductor fabrication facilities, with chips being critical to global supply chains and national economic resilience. Semiconductor fabrication plants, or “fabs”, require large sites due to their...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Guidelines for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Service have been developed to actively empower public servants to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the delivery of services. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide practical information and resources for all public servants and Government officials on how to design, develop, deploy and maintain AI...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department is committed to upholding the key aims of the Dignity at Work Policy, the Anti-Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Harassment policy for the Irish Civil Service. My Department is also committed to providing a work environment free from any form of bullying, harassment or sexual harassment. Such behaviour is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Any complaints or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Deputy's question concerns public procurement policy which is a matter for the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. Public Procurement is governed by EU legislation and national rules/guidelines. EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement (goods, services and works) has been transposed into Irish Law in the form of corresponding...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key focus of our Programme for Government and is central to the work of my Department and our enterprise development agencies. In that regard, IDA Ireland partners with client companies and key stakeholders in all regions in pursuit of its objective to maximise regional opportunities. Under its current strategy, “Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business scheme was introduced in March 2024 and the Power Up grant was introduced in October 2024. Both grant schemes are now closed. As you are aware the second ICOB payment and the Power Up grant specifically targeted businesses in the retail, hospitality and beauty sectors. The Department used NACE codes to determine eligibility for those sectors. The NACE Codes...