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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Food Works programme is a Government supported business accelerator programme that aims to develop the next generation of scalable and export driven Irish food and drinks businesses. It was established in 2012 as a collaboration between Bord Bia and Enterprise Ireland. In Food Works, successful participants are given a range of practical business aids required to develop an initial...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Business Innovation Centres were established in 1988 as a European Union (EU) initiative and until the end of 1999 were funded by the EU. The BIC’s are independent companies, limited by guarantee, and led by boards whose members come mainly from the private sector. There are four Business Innovation Centres located throughout the country as follows – Dublin BIC, Cork BIC,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grant Payments (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The amount of grant aid provided to the company referred to in the Deputy's question for each of the years 2011 to 2021 is detailed in the table below. There have been no payments made to this company to date in 2021. Year of Payment Amount € 2011 48,703 2012 6,331,584 2013 361,942 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety Inspections (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Between the 1st September 2020 to the 27th February 2021 the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has carried out 4,119 workplace inspections across a wide range of sectors, of which 1,495 were carried out on the construction sector. All of these inspections in the construction sector were unannounced. The table below details the numbers of inspections per month in all sectors and construction...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The statistics requested by the Deputy regarding the monthly figures of employment permits ( new and renewals) granted broken down by sector and by country of nationality of the permit holder for the period from March 2020 to January 2021 and from March 2019 to January 2020 are set out in the two attached tables. Table A Table B

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: As you are aware, I recently announced a new €60m Scheme, called the COVID-19 Business Aid Scheme (CBAS), that is being developed to provide grants to businesses ineligible for the Government’s other existing schemes and is designed to help with fixed costs. Wholesalers, suppliers, caterers and events companies down 75% or more in turnover and who are in receipts of a rates bill...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Since October 2020, South Africa and India among other countries, have presented a proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to allow all countries to choose to neither grant nor enforce any patents or other intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for the duration of the pandemic. The proposers argue that this would allow countries to scale up...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I am acutely aware of the difficulties that the necessary ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are putting on businesses right across the country. Businesses are making sacrifices in order to protect their communities. With this in mind the Government has put in place a comprehensive package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic, including the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The 31 Local Enterprise Offices nationwide are a ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other assistance to those wishing to start or grow their own business and act as a ‘signposting’ service for all Government grants ad loan Schemes available to the SME sector. The LEOs will also provide information and or referrals to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will no doubt be aware International Trade Policy is an exclusive EU competence under the EU Treaties and defined as the Common Commercial Policy. Under this architecture the Commission represents Ireland and other Member States, taking into account the needs of individual Member States and the collective good of the Union in international trade negotiations. The EU's...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department provides funding on an emergency humanitarian basis as a contribution towards the costs of returning business premises and community, voluntary and sporting bodies, that cannot secure flood insurance, to their pre-flood condition including the replacement of flooring, fixtures and fittings and damaged stock. The Scheme is administered through an MOU between my Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The financial support the Government is providing businesses and workers affected by the pandemic is unprecedented. Almost a million people of working age are now in receipt of weekly payments including the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), Employment Wage Subsidy (EWSS) and Jobseekers Benefit or Allowance. Support for business includes the weekly CRSS payment for businesses forced to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Broadband Plan (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I am meeting with National Broadband Ireland this week.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Between the 1st September 2020 to the 27th February 2021 the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has carried out 4,119 workplace inspections across a wide range of sectors, of which 1,495 were carried out on the construction sector. All of these inspections in the construction sector were unannounced. The table below details the numbers of inspections per month in all sectors and construction...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Tá brón orm go raibh mé déanach. Tá dul chun cinn maith á dhéanamh i leith dáileadh na vacsaíne. Táthar tuar go mbainfear amach an sprioc de 500,000 an tseachtain seo. Beidh an chéad dáileog faighte ag ár gclainne agus ag ár gcairde a bhfuil os cionn 85 bliana d’aois faoi dheireadh na seachtaine seo. Cé go...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The answer to the Deputy's question is "Yes". The Government has asked NIAC to consider prioritising family carers after the current groups. I strongly believe it is right that we prioritise healthcare workers, those most likely to get sick, people over 70 and people under 70 with medical conditions because they are most likely to die or get very sick from this virus. We have asked NIAC to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: -----with 25,000 intended for healthcare workers. That will arrive before the end of the month.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Many job losses have been announced in recent weeks, which are a deep concerns to all of us. As the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, I get notification of many of those, and I am very aware of the real impact it is having on people. Some of those job losses are directly related to Covid-19, for example, in the airlines the Deputy mentioned. Some are not; they would have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. The plan for young people and to ensure we do not have high levels of youth unemployment when the pandemic is over is three-fold: it is to save as many jobs and businesses as possible; to create new jobs, which we are doing; and to create more educational and training opportunities ranging from higher education to further education to apprenticeships to lifelong learning...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. It is good to see him here for Leaders' Questions. I am not sure if this is his regular slot or whether it is a consequence of his decision to join People Before Profit but I look forward to some interesting exchanges in the months ahead. Let me be very clear. I do not have the slightest interest in beef barons. I have never met a beef baron. I do not know what a...