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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department and its agencies have put a wide range of Brexit enterprise measures in place, covering potential Brexit impacts. Details of the enterprise measure approvals made as part of the COVID -19 and Brexit supports available are updated weekly on my Department’s website at . My Department is providing a wide range of grants, loans and advisory services to affected businesses....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Registrar of Companies is a statutory role and the Registrar has administrative independence in the exercise of this function. I have not received correspondence directly from the body referred to by the Deputy in relation to the CRO IT system but I am aware that the Registrar of Companies has been in correspondence. A major upgrade of the CRO IT system went live with effect from...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Any mitigation measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for those travelling into Ireland for essential work are primarily a matter for the Department of Transport, Department of Health and the Department of Justice. Any processes or procedures an essential worker or an employer might have to comply with, before arriving or on arrival in Ireland, would be based on the current public health...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ministerial Correspondence (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: A detailed response was provided directly to Shannon Chamber last week. In situations where an employer must make an employee redundant, it is the employer’s responsibility to pay statutory redundancy payments to eligible employees. However, if an employer cannot sustain the cost of redundancy payments due to financial difficulties or insolvency the State provides a safety net for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: These are difficult times and many companies have had to temporarily close their businesses and / or premise(s), curtail their activities or make alternative work arrangements due to COVID-19 restrictions. I am aware that some businesses are concerned that some landlords are continuing to insist on the payment of rents and leases as normal despite their premises being closed. The issue of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Budget 2021 provided a significant package of tax and expenditure measures to build the resilience of the economy and to help vulnerable but viable businesses across all sectors. Details of the wide range of supports available are on my Department’s website at . These measures are in addition to the July Stimulus €7bn package of enterprise measures, which includes the Wage...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: There is no requirement for an unlimited company to file financial statements unless there is limited liability. Therefore, there are no grounds on which an unlimited company can apply for an exemption from having to file financial statements with the Companies Registration Office under the Companies (Accounting) Act 2017. The EU Accounting Directive (2013/34/EU), which is given effect in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Section 12A of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 is the emergency provision which suspends an employee’s entitlement to claim redundancy from their employer, following certain periods of lay-off or short time work due to Covid-19, for the duration of the emergency period. The decision to extend this suspension to 31st March 2021 was a difficult one and was disappointing for those...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Issues (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Ireland supports transparency and good governance including “country by country” reporting by MNEs to national tax authorities. The Finance Act 2015 introduced obligations for relevant companies to report to the Revenue Commissioners. The Proposal for a Directive to amend Directive 2013/34/EU (the Accounting Directive) as regards disclosure of income tax information by...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: As the procurement of medical equipment is a matter for the Health Service Executive this question is more appropriate to the Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The decision of the High Court last week is very significant. The High Court ruled in favour of four pubs that have business interruption policies with FBD. There is yet to be a decision on the quantum. That will be adjudicated in the courts later this month. In that sense, this case is still active and we need to bear that in mind. The ruling could have implications for other small...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. The situation is, and he knows this full well, that the Government cannot interfere in court cases, full stop. His attempts to call on Government to interfere in court cases is totally disingenuous. Nor can the Government direct the Central Bank-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The only reason the Deputy needs to shout me down when I answer is that he does not want people to hear the truth. That is the only reason that he has to try to shout me down every time I try to answer. He knows full well that the Government cannot interfere in court cases. He knows full well that the Government cannot direct an independent regulator like the Central Bank. The Central...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy for her questions. To clarify, and I have clarified it before, when I used the term "disproportionate", what I was referring to was the fact that it could be argued, and I think it will be argued, that it is disproportionate to impose mandatory hotel quarantine on people who do not have Covid when we do not do that to people who do have Covid. At the moment, there are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I am sure the Deputy will agree and appreciate that the way things are heard is not always what was said or what was meant. That applies even without being misrepresented. Something a person says or means can be heard in a different way. Anyway, I am happy once again to clarify the point. Anything that will save hundreds or thousands of lives is proportionate in my view. We may run into...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I absolutely agree with Deputy Canney that the value of the work done by people on CE schemes is extraordinary. I remember the day we visited Caherlistrane together in County Galway and saw some of the phenomenal work being done. That is replicated in communities, urban and rural, throughout Ireland. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, who has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: This is an issue that, as the Deputy will know, has been going on for a long time. It has been grappled with by four or five Governments at this stage. It has not been brought to resolution because there is a real difficulty around it. CE supervisors are of course entitled to the State contributory pension based on their PRSI payments. However, to be entitled to a public sector pension in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I can confirm that the ban on new oil and gas exploration licences does not apply to existing licences or concessions, only to new ones. The ban on gas exploration was announced by me, as Taoiseach, about a year or two ago. We are now going to legislate to ban exploration for oil and gas but existing licences and concessions will still be honoured. However, that is not the way of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I have heard about and read about the Barryroe project but do not know the details. If the Deputy wants to pass them on to me I will certainly take a look at them and see if the suggestion he has made that it could be carbon-neutral stacks up. If it does it is something to which we would have to give good consideration. I do not know that, however, but if he wants to pass on more...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. What we have done thus far is to reduce international and oversea travel into Ireland by about 95%. Anybody arriving in the country is required to have a PCR test taken three days before arrival. There is 98% or 99% compliance with that which is very good. Mandatory home quarantine is now the law. Next week we expect to have legislation on mandatory hotel quarantine....