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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Innovation is globally recognised as the key economic differentiator. Innovation and technology enable companies to make products and services that are better, cheaper or more novel than those in global markets. Thus, in order to export and scale, companies must innovate and embrace technology. Product lifetimes in global markets are incredibly short (1-3 years) thus necessitating a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Action Plan for Jobs is one of the Government’s key instruments to support job creation. The Action Plan for Jobs process is working. Since the first Plan was launched in early 2012, almost 206,000 more people are at work. Over 66,000 jobs were created during 2016. Employment growth is spread across all regions and all sectors of the economy. The goal of this Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Knowledge Development Box (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am satisfied that the full benefits from the Knowledge Development Box (KDB) will remain available to the Irish economy. The KDB, introduced in Budget 2016 forms part of Ireland’s competitive offering to continue to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and to support Irish owned companies to innovate and to compete effectively on international markets. Ireland is the first...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am committed to maintaining an excellent and close relationship with the Northern Ireland authorities as we both work to address the challenges associated with Brexit. While there is no Executive in place at present, and therefore no equivalent Northern Ireland Minister in office, there is ongoing cooperation and engagement at official level. InterTrade Ireland, which is jointly...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Continued investment in competitively priced world class infrastructures, including energy, water, waste, telecoms, and transport, is crucial to the delivery of our ambition for job creation and growth throughout our regions. Inadequate investment can dampen productivity growth, increase costs and limit opportunities for indigenous enterprise and for FDI. However, investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business. In Budget 2017, I secured an additional €4m in Capital funding for the LEOs, which brought the total Capital allocation for this year to €22.5m. The Capital funding is made...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: As Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, my focus is on improving Ireland’s competitiveness performance. Furthermore, my Department and the Government are very conscious of the need for a sustained focus on ensuring Ireland is an attractive location for mobile international and indigenous investment. In December the National Competitiveness Council published Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (16 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I, and officials in my Department and Agencies, have ongoing contact with the Minister for Finance and his officials in relation to enterprise tax policy matters. The Government and I are committed to ensuring that Ireland will continue to provide a competitive offering, including tax offering, to attract FDI and to ensure that our entrepreneurs establish and scale in Ireland. These...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (17 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Accommodation, including attendant car parking, for my Department, which is spread over a number of locations in Dublin as well as regionally, is provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in buildings which are either State owned or leased by the OPW on our behalf. All leasehold arrangements and payments are, accordingly, arranged and paid by the OPW and not by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (17 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Expenditure on car parking spaces by state agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for the agencies concerned and not one in which I have any function. I have asked the agencies to provide me with details of any such expenditure and I will forward this to the Deputy once received.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (17 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am informed by IDA Ireland that there were three Agency sponsored site visits to Kerry in 2016. For reasons of client confidentiality, the Agency cannot make details of specific visits publicly available. It is important to remember that the number of site visits to a particular county is not necessarily an accurate measure of the level of foreign direct investment (FDI) activity in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (17 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 and 280 together. There are currently no persons employed through agencies in my Department and its Offices.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Contracts Data (17 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Since taking Office, my Department as an employer has undertaken one investigation in the area of human resources and industrial relations.  In this regard, the HR Unit of my Department is currently in the process of engaging an external agency to undertake an investigation under the Dignity at Work policy.  As we are at an early stage in the contracting...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (18 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Companies Registration Office (CRO) is the statutory authority for registering new companies in Ireland and is the central repository of public statutory information on Irish companies. Statistics on the incorporation and dissolution of companies are published in the Annual Reports produced by the Companies Registration Office, which may be accessed for free on the website www.cro.ie....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (18 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business. In the first instance, the LEOs provide a ‘signposting’ service in relation to all relevant State supports available through agencies such as Revenue, the Department of Social...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety (18 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 300 and 301 together. This Government is fully committed to promoting and delivering on safe and healthy workplaces. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is the national statutory body under the aegis of my Department with responsibility for enforcing occupational safety and health law, promoting and encouraging accident prevention, and providing...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (18 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: At the time of developing Enterprise 2025, Ireland ranked 13th overall in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings and 7th when compared with small economies. Enterprise 2025 lists the comparator small countries with higher rankings. In its latest publication, Doing Business 2017 which was released in October 2016, the World Bank ranked Ireland 18th overall and 9th...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The evidence provided by the report, Expanding and diversifying the manufactured exports of Irish-owned enterprises April 4, 2017, undertaken by the ESRI on behalf of my Department and Enterprise Ireland, highlights the balance of exports between multinational corporations and indigenous enterprises. This research on manufacturing exports examines how firms launch, adapt, diversify and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Measures (23 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016 was signed into law by the President on 17 May 2017. Section 78(1) of the Companies (Accounting) Act 2017 replaces and amends section 1274 of the Companies Act 2014. It provides that an unlimited company (an ULC) is not obliged to file financial statements with its annual return, while a designated unlimited company (a ‘designated...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (23 May 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In July 2016, Government approved a General Scheme of a Bill entitled the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) (Miscellaneous Intellectual Property) Bill. The Bill is currently being drafted by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.  When drafting of the Bill is finalised, my intention is to seek Government approval to publish the Bill. The Bill proposes a modest amendment to...