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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...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (15 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: EU Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/2337 recommends that Member States list COVID-19 as an occupational disease. In Ireland, the Department of Social Protection is responsible for maintaining the list of prescribed occupational diseases and for giving consideration to the inclusion of particular conditions. This is laid down in S.I. No. 102/2007 - Social Welfare (Consolidated...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (15 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Agentic AI is not currently being used for any purpose in my Department. Work is ongoing to identify potential use cases for all artificial intelligent technologies to support the work of the Department. My Department led the development of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy - “AI – Here for Good”. As part of this Strategy, the Department of Public...

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 Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Under the EU Just Transition Fund, Fáilte Ireland has been tasked with the administration of €68 million for a Regenerative Tourism and Placemaking Scheme 2023-2026. Through this scheme, Fáilte Ireland is investing in the sustainable development of tourism in the Midlands with the aim of diversifying the regional economy by creating jobs, supporting habitats and biodiversity...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department is committed to ensuring transparency around expenditure financial reporting with procurement records in a manner that is both practical and legally compliant. My Department complies with the obligation to publish quarterly reports of payments over €20,000 on our website and does so in machine-readable formats such as CSV and Excel. These reports are generated using data...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Circulars (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: In line with Circular 05/2023 – Initiatives to Assist SMEs in Public Procurement, all contracting authorities are required to publish contract award information for procurements valued over €25,000 (exclusive of VAT) following the completion of the award process. The specific information sought in the Question relates to the operational practices of each State body and is not...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reports (14 Oct 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 (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The information requested in respect of bodies under the aegis of my Department is currently being collated and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Projects (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: As set out in my Department’s recently launched Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity, industrial decarbonisation is not just an environmental, but also a competitive and economic imperative for Irish businesses. As the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment I have responsibility for the reduction of industrial emissions by 35% by 2030. Ireland’s largest...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reviews (14 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Last year I published the Roadmap for the Decarbonisation of Industrial Heat. It outlines the necessary trajectory to meet our binding greenhouse gas abatement targets for industry, and decarbonise our manufacturing sectors, including the cement, metals, food, drink and life sciences sectors. The Roadmap sets out the key policy interventions to decarbonise heat use by industry, including the...

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...