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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The Government’s Economic Recovery Plan laid the foundations for economic recovery and improving competitiveness emerging from the pandemic. Central to this was the scale of the unemployment challenge and getting people back to work, accelerating the provision of training, reskilling and upskilling. The Economic Recovery Plan set out an ambition of exceeding pre-crisis employment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My department provides a range of tailored supports for small and medium enterprises. Supports include access to finance, management development, mentoring supports, business development programmes, market supports and trade promotion. Details of the full range of supports available to SMEs are set out on a dedicated website at the following address: supportingsmes.gov.ie

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The position of CEO of IDA Ireland was advertised nationally and internationally in early November 2022. The selection progress is ongoing.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay Commission (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: As I previously advised, I have received the Low Pay Commission’s report on Universal Basic Income, and its accompanying research report which was prepared by the Economic and Social Research Institute under the terms of the Low Pay Commission – ESRI Research Partnership Agreement. I am considering the next steps to take including the publication in due course of the two reports.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Details of my meetings with EI and IDA, since taking office, are set out in tabular form below. This does not include client company events such as job announcements nor trade missions at which EI/IDA officials and I may have been present amongst the general attendance. Meeting IDA Meeting EI 2020 2nd July ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: On Monday 12 December, IDA Ireland reported strong annual results for 2022, recording a substantial increase in growth in foreign direct investment-linked employment on 2021. I am proud to say that numbers employed as a result of foreign direct investment are now at the highest ever level. Employment growth in 2022 raised the number of people employed in the FDI sector in Ireland to over...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Manufacturing is the backbone of the Irish economy and is of strategic national importance to Ireland. It accounts for approximately 270,000 jobs (80% outside of Dublin), €100bn in exports, and contributes more than €30bn in local spend with a capital expenditure of €7bn. In the ICT, agri-food, engineering and life sciences sectors, Ireland is home to wealth of world...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: When we launched the Economic Recovery Plan in June 2021, we set a goal of achieving 2.5 million people in employment by 2024. The Plan not only aimed to recover employment lost during the pandemic but to promote new employment opportunities through increased labour market activation and by accelerating the provision of training, reskilling and upskilling opportunities. According to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: After public consultations including direct engagement with industry representatives - both manufacturing and services - among others, on 7th December, I published the Government's White Paper on Enterprise 2022-2030 - which is available on my Department's website at white-paper-on-enterprise-2022-2030.pdf. The White Paper sets out an ambitious vision for Ireland’s enterprise policy,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Table 1 below shows employment in manufacturing and services in County Kildare for enterprise agency client companies, that is, clients of IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Udaras na Gaeltachta, for the years 2019-2021. 2021 is the most recently available data for all agency client companies. Table 1: Employment, County Kildare 2019 2020 2021 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: After public consultations that involved extensive engagement with industry representatives - both manufacturing and services - among others, on 7th December, I published the White Paper on Enterprise 2022-2030 which is available on my Department's website at white-paper-on-enterprise-2022-2030.pdf and which sets out our strategy for Enterprise Policy to 2030. The White Paper sets out an...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (13 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is working closely with the Department of Foreign Affairs and its Embassy network, as well as other Departments of State, to implement the Government’s Diaspora Strategy, Global Ireland- Ireland’s Diaspora Strategy 2020-2025, which was launched in late 2020. The Department of Foreign Affairs leads on the implementation of this strategy. Global Ireland sets out a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Data (14 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: No fines have been incurred by my Department for infringements of EU law or for failure to transpose EU law during the 33rd Dáil term.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (14 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment is actively working with the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland on new loan schemes. The Ukraine Credit Guarantee Scheme will release up to €1.2 billion in lending to assist the liquidity needs of SMEs, farmers, fishers and small mid-caps. Increased energy costs are driving increased costs in every area of business...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Standards Authority of Ireland (14 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The table below details the funding provided to the National Standards Authority of Ireland by my Department in each of the years 2019 to date: SubheadA6 - NSAI Current Allocation (€,000) Capital Allocation (€,000) Total Allocation (€,000) Year 2019 6,146 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Standards Authority of Ireland (14 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 22 and 23 together. The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) has six staff members engaged in this work. Meetings at ministerial level with EU counterparts on building technologies are within the policy responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Social Media (14 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Details of expenditure incurred by my Department on social media advertising during 2021 and to date in 2022 are set out in the attached table. - - Amount spent per social media platform € Year Platforms Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Youtube Annual Total € 2021 ...

Death of Private Seán Rooney: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: Táimid aontaithe faoi scamall bróin inniu tar éis bhás saighdiúra chróga a bhí ag fónamh sa Liobáin. Déanaimid caoineadh lena theaghlach agus molaimid crógacht na ndaoine atá páirteach ann. Tá a fhios againn go mbraitheann gach duine in Óglaigh na hÉireann nó sa bhaile an caillteanas seo. Tá ár...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. We understand the ECB will make an announcement on interest rates today. We do not know what it is going to be but it is anticipated there will be a further increase interest rates announced. We hope it is the last one, or failing that, the second-last one. As the Deputy will appreciate, the ECB is independent in its functions and it has a particular remit to bring...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy. I absolutely appreciate that interest rates going up will be very unwelcome for tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of families across the country. Those with tracker mortgages, for example, will receive that letter, the fourth such letter in only a few months telling them their repayments are going up. The same will apply to people on variable rates and that is not...