Results 2,401-2,420 of 4,073 for speaker:Mary Mitchell O'Connor
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 305 and 306 together. Details of the total number of Local Enterprise Office (formerly County Enterprise Board) supported jobs and client numbers for all Local Enterprise Offices for 2014 and 2015 are set out in the following table. Similar information for 2016 is currently being collated and will be published later in Quarter 1 2017. Table: Local Enterprise...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: An additional €3 million in Pay that I secured in Budget 2017 is targeted specifically to assist in our response to the evolving Brexit scenario. It will enable the Department and its Agencies to recruit an additional forty to fifty staff to supplement existing staffing numbers. In this regard, the additional €3 million pay allocation is for distribution across Enterprise...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Design and Crafts Council receives funding through Enterprise Ireland for the purpose of promoting crafts and design initiatives. The Budget is approved by the EI Board. An Economic Impact Review of the Crafts Council of Ireland was carried out by Tom Martin and Associates on behalf of Enterprise Ireland in late 2013. The review made recommendations under the following headings: -...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Funding was allocated to the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) for the delivery of Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation, through Enterprise Ireland. The total funding was €5.5 million, with €550,000 allocated in 2014 and €4,950,000 in 2015. From the outset of the initiative, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Design and Crafts Council of Ireland receives income through membership fees and also receives funding through Enterprise Ireland for the purpose of promoting crafts and design initiatives. The Budget is approved by the EI Board. Operational and policy matters, along with expenditure, are governed by a Service Level Agreement between the two parties. The funding allocation by Enterprise...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Motor Insurance (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The establishment of the Personal Injuries Commission is one of the key recommendations in the Cost of Insurance Working Group Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance published on the 10thJanuary 2017 by the Minister for Finance, Mr Michael Noonan T.D., and the Minister of State for Financial Services, Mr Eoghan Murphy T.D. The Report sets out a comprehensive package of measures that tackle...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) was established on 1st October 2015 under the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and assumed the roles and functions previously carried out by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC), Rights Commissioner Service (RCS), Equality Tribunal (ET), the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) and the first instance (Complaints and Referrals) functions of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) through its inspection service seeks to secure better compliance with employment rights legislation through proactive education and awareness programmes and focused, risk based inspection and enforcement campaigns. Inspections may be carried out in response to complaints received of alleged non-compliance with relevant employment rights legislation;...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Aid (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 314 and 315 together. EU Regulation No 1407/2013 (the de minimis Regulation) sets out the rules for granting small amounts of financial aid to enterprises which are unlikely to affect trade and distort competition (de minimis aid). Generally, public bodies are allowed to grant aid to a single undertaking of up to €200,000 over a 3 year...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (19 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: An extensive programme of engagement with all other EU Governments and the EU institutions, including the Commission’s Brexit Negotiations Task Force, is under way. This engagement is being intensified in 2017. Since the UK referendum to leave the EU took place, I have met with a number of my European counterparts. In September I travelled to Brussels, where I had a series of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Ticket Touting (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank Deputies Rock, Donnelly and Michael Healy-Rae for the work they have done and for raising this issue here. I share the concern of the Deputies and the public about the resale of tickets for major entertainment or sporting events at inflated prices. Although this concern is not new, it has been highlighted by the resale of tickets for the U2 and Coldplay concerts next July. I met...
- Topical Issue Debate: Ticket Touting (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the Deputies for their contributions to this debate. I understand the reasons they and the public are anxious to see action on this issue. If legislation is to be introduced to regulate ticket resale, an established procedure must be followed. This includes the preparation of a regulatory impact analysis. In Ireland, as in other countries, public consultation is an integral part...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ticket Touting (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: On Friday 20 January, I launched a public consultation on the resale of tickets for entertainment and sporting events in conjunction with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. The consultation is being undertaken in response to public concern at the resale of tickets for major entertainment and sporting events at a price often well in excess of their face value. Though ticket...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I assume the Deputy is referring to the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case 266/14 Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones obreras (CC.OO.) v Tyco Integrated Security SL, Tyco Integrated Fire & Security Corporation Servicios SA. In that case the CJEU held that Article 2 of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Law (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Companies Act 2014, a seminal piece of legislative consolidation and reform, was commenced on 1 June 2015. The timely commencement of this Act was complemented by the issuing of a number of statutory instruments to facilitate, among other things, orderly registration, court procedures, electronic filing, etc. An Explanatory Memorandum to the Act was published alongside Tables of...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Science Foundation Ireland, an agency of my Department, is the national foundation for investment in scientific and engineering research and is the principal agency through which my Department funds research in third level institutions. Enterprise Ireland, also an agency of my Department is the government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Law (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA) is the competent authority for the purposes of oversight of statutory audit in the State. The EU Audit Directive 2006/43/EC, as amended by Directive 2014/56/EU, sets out the working arrangements that must be put in place between IAASA and other third country competent authorities in order to facilitate inspections by those...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I very much regret the decision by the company in question to close its facility in Mullingar. I understand the need to find new employment for the wider area and I have directed IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland (EI) to explore what potential opportunities there may be for new investment there. IDA Ireland is already engaging with both current and prospective clients to...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 617 and 618 together. My Department is staffed at senior management level as set out in the table. Grade No. Remuneration level (Non-Personal Pension Contribution Scale and Personal Contribution Scale) Secretary General 1 Non PPC €176,350.00 Assistant Secretary 6 Non PPC €119,572.00 - €136,496.00PPC €125,761.00 -...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Data (24 Jan 2017)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: IDA Ireland collates its data on site visits on a countywide basis only. The Agency cannot provide, for both reasons of client confidentiality and commercial sensitivity, more specific details on the particular locations visited in each respective county, including for those cited in Tipperary from 2012 to 2016.