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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Science and Technology and Development programme provides funding for Enterprise Ireland's Ireland’s (EI) Research, Development and Innovation programmes.  These programmes support direct and indirect research, development and innovation supports for indigenous companies and supports the commercialisation of State funded research. For 2023 the Science, Technology and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The tables following detail the breakdown for the current and capital budget allocations for each subhead of my Department as published in the Revised Estimate Volume 2023. Programme A – Jobs and Enterprise Development Subhead Current Capital Total €,000 €,000 €,000 A.1...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: Smart Specialisation is an innovation policy concept developed by the European Commission which aims to boost regional innovation, contributing to growth and prosperity by helping and enabling regions to focus on their strengths. While Smart Specialisation involves radical innovation, it also involves innovating in traditional fields, through developing and applying new business or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland's National AI Strategy, “AI - Here for Good”, provides a high-level direction to the design, development, deployment and governance of AI in Ireland. It presents an integrated framework to manage the expected beneficial socio-economic opportunities that AI presents. Our vision is for Ireland to become a leading country in using AI to the benefit of our citizens, through...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: Harnessing Digital - the Digital Ireland Framework reflects Ireland’s ambition to continue to be a digital leader at the heart of European and global digital developments.  As the National Digital Strategy, it sets out a roadmap to drive and enable the digital transition across Enterprise; Infrastructure; Skills; and Public Services, in line with the EU’s Digital Decade. It...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department published the National Remote Work Strategy on 15 January 2021. The strategy identified 15 actions to ensure that remote work is a permanent feature in the Irish workplace in a way that maximises its economic, social and environmental benefits. My Department led the development and implementation of the Strategy’s actions during 2021 and 2022 through the Remote Work...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The National Enterprise Strategy: Enterprise 2025 was reviewed in 2017 leading to the publication of Enterprise 2025 Renewed (2018) with targets set out through to 2020. Many of these targets have now been met, or surpassed. Enterprise 2025 Renewed was subsequently superseded by Future Jobs Ireland 2019 and the Government’s Economic Recovery Plan, 2021 and more recently the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department’s Human Resources and Learning and Career Development teams are responsible for delivery of the DETE People Strategy 2021-2024. Delivery of actions under the DETE People Strategy in 2023 are funded by current expenditure which comes under the Administration section of the Department's Budget. Expenditure is incurred in respect of the staffing resources of the Human...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The 2023 budget allocation for core ICT services in my Department in 2023 is €5,173,000. The equivalent allocation for 2022 was €4,173,000. The 2023 allocation represents an increase of €1 million on the 2022 allocation, or 24%. The additional allocation is to fund a significant increase in business systems development activity in 2023, as well as to meet more general...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The table below details the current and capital budget allocations to my Department across Programme A – Jobs and Enterprise Development as published in the Revised Estimates Volume 2023. Programme A – Jobs and Enterprise Development Subhead Current Capital Total €,000 €,000 €,000...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The microelectronics industry is of great importance to Ireland. We have a significant semiconductor design and fabrication history and we have developed a strong domestic and international semiconductor industry and research and development ecosystem, with over 130 indigenous and foreign subsidiary companies across the microelectronics value chain. There are over 20,000 people currently...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (31 Jan 2023)

Simon Coveney: The information requested is currently being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised. 

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: The €500 million Growth and Sustainability Loan Scheme (GSLS) will make competitively priced loans of between €25,000 and €3 million available to SMEs, including farmers and fishers and small mid-caps, for terms of up to ten years, with loans of up to €500,000 available unsecured. The scheme will target a minimum of 30% of the lending volume towards Environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department did not spend on online advertising until 2018. Details of spend from 2018 to date is set out in tabular form below. Year Spend on Online Advertising € 2018 7,127 2019 6,224 2020 10,832 2021 64,618 2022 160,372 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: Both press office and public relations duties fall under the remit of the Corporate Communications Unit in my Department. The Unit has not undertaken to create social media accounts under false names.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: 33,000 new jobs were created in FDI companies in 2022, bringing the total number of people employed in the FDI sector in Ireland to over 300,000, which represents the highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) employment level ever. The results illustrate the continued substantial growth in FDI in 2022 despite a difficult global economic environment. Growth in regions also continued with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: The table below details the current and capital budget allocations provided to the Jobs and Enterprise Development Programme of my Department as set out in the 2022 Revised Estimates published in December 2021 and in the 2023 Revised Estimate published in December 2022.  The Department had a Supplementary Estimate in 2022 which was approved by the Dáil last December.  The table...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: The table below details the current and capital budget allocations provided to the Enterprise, Innovation and Commercialisation Programme of my Department as set out in the 2022 Revised Estimates published in December 2021 and in the 2023 Revised Estimate published in December 2022.  The Department had a Supplementary Estimate in 2022 which was approved by the Dáil last...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: There are no capital programmes funded under the Regulation Programme, Programme C, of my Department’s Vote.  The table below details the current allocations provided to the Regulation Programme of my Department as set out in the 2022 Revised Estimates published in December 2021 and in the 2023 Revised Estimate published in December 2022.  The Department had a Supplementary...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (1 Feb 2023)

Simon Coveney: The table below details the current and capital budget allocations provided to IDA Ireland of my Department as set out in the 2022 Revised Estimates published in December 2021 and in the 2023 Revised Estimate published in December 2022.  The Department had a Supplementary Estimate in 2022 which was approved by the Dáil last December.  The table does not reflect any changes to...