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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The LDA was established on an interim basis in 2018 by way of an establishment order, pending the enactment of primary legislation, when it will be established as a commercial State agency - a State-owned developer. Once the primary legislation is in place, equity funding of €1.25 billion will be made available to the LDA through transfers from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I acknowledge that the waiting times for therapies are very long and far too long in many parts of the country. Although I may be incorrect, I think that CHO 7 was part of a pilot where we are going to move therapists into schools, which we think might be a more effective way of providing these services than through the HSE. I will seek an update on that and come back to Deputy Crowe about...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I was very disappointed to hear that Teva Pharmaceuticals plans to close its Sudocrem manufacturing plant in Baldoyle. This comes not long after the announcement by Viatris that it is to close one of its Baldoyle operations. Our primary concern is for the workers and families affected by this news. While I understand that both plants will remain operational until the end of 2022, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I recommend the Deputy directs this question to the Department of Health and the Department of Social Protection, which have more direct responsibility for the issues raised. As the Deputy may be aware, the Economic Recovery Plan states that the forthcoming Pathways to Work Strategy will increase the capacity of the Public Employment Service, assigning 150 Employment Case Officers (job...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department spent €27,122 on social media advertising between the beginning of January 2021 and 12th June 2021. This includes expenditure on a number of awareness raising campaigns including Brexit, the National Minimum Wage and Covid 19 related communications. With regard to the spend by the state agencies under the remit of my Department, these are operational matters for those...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has spent €17,454 on social media content production since the beginning of January 2021 and 12th June 2021. This includes expenditure on a number of awareness raising campaigns including Brexit, the National Minimum Wage and Covid 19 related communications.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not incurred any public relations consultancy costs since January 2021. With regard to the spend by the state agencies under the remit of my Department, these are operational matters for those agencies and I do not have any direct function in these matters. However, I have asked the state agencies under the remit of my Department to provide the requested information to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Climate Action Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The information sought by the Deputy is below: The cost of completing the action as part of current work programmes The consultancy or service costs associated with undertaking research and analysis to complete the action Action number Description Cost 52 Develop a clear understanding of the enterprise sector CO2 emissions and develop a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: During the last year, my Department has progressed a range of policy initiatives across its broad remit including a range of Programme for Government commitments. Details of activity during 2020 can be found in my Department’s Annual Report 2020, published at www.enterprise.gov.ie. Key policy achievements since 27 June 2020 include the following: We published a €7 billion Jobs...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Equality Issues (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Social Protection has lead responsibility for labour market activation, and supporting underrepresented groups into employment. While my Department does not have responsibility for operating any employment programmes or funding any support services targeted specifically at minority or disadvantaged communities, we deal with the broader area of job creation and work to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (22 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: IntertradeIreland (ITI) is jointly funded by my Department and its Northern Ireland counterpart the Department for the Economy (DfE). The funding provided by my Department over recent years is set out below in tabular form. My Department has been steadily increasing its contribution to ITI in recent years to equip the body to assist SMEs prepare for and respond to the UK’s withdrawal...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (22 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Banking charges and interest charges incurred by state agencies and organisations under the remit of my Department are a day-to-day operational matter for the agencies concerned and do not fall within my Ministerial remit.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (22 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department’s Humanitarian Flooding Relief Scheme may be invoked, following a Government Decision, to provide funding on the basis of confirmation received from the local authority and the National Emergency Coordination Group that relevant damage has occurred. My Department remains ready to assist should there be the necessary justification to do so. In that regard my...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (22 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Currently there is no official living wage in Ireland. The Living Wage Technical Group, which comprises members including Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, TASC, NERI and SIPTU calculates a living wage by calculating the cost of a basic basket of goods, services and expenses required to maintain a “minimum essential living standard (MESL)”. The Partnership estimates the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Fire Safety (23 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: In the area of furniture fire safety, there are no harmonised EU standards. The Irish standard (I.S. 419:2011) and regulations (SI No. 316/1995) were introduced to protect consumers by preventing the rapid spread of a fire started on or near furniture. In 2019 my Department conducted a public consultation on the future of the regulations. The public consultation period was extended until...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Agreements (23 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, commonly known as CETA, has provisionally applied since 21st September 2017, meaning a great many of the benefits of this Agreement are already in place. Provisional application is a standard mechanism provided for in the EU’s Free Trade Agreements. This means that those areas where the EU has full competence may be applied...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Workplace Relations Commission (23 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 47 together. The WRC carries out inspections of employer records with a view to determining compliance with employment rights legislation. The full year cost of recruiting an executive officer inspector for the Workplace Relations Commission would be approximately €61,341. This is based on the calculation of staff costs as set out in the Public...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (23 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The table below sets out the exchequer funding expended by IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland and local enterprise offices, respectively in 2019, 2020 and the 2021 funding allocated through the published Revised Estimate Volume. Revised Estimates Volume Allocations 2019 Outturn(€,000) 2020 Outturn(€,000) 2021...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Welfare Code (23 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government is committed to introducing a statutory sick pay scheme and work is well underway in this regard. Ireland is currently an outlier among its peer nations in not providing for any statutory employer sick pay and is one of only three EU member states that does not do so. Any move to introduce a statutory sick pay scheme must be balanced with the need to support the viability...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The fact that the Deputy has to go out of his way to misrepresent what I say and to misquote me is emblematic of how dishonest and two-faced he and his party are when it comes to the issue of housing. What I said was a statement of fact, but I did not say under any circumstances that I thought it was desirable that we should see house prices rise further or get back to the level they were at...