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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It is 37 GW-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: -----by 2050 and it will be well over €100 billion of capital investment. The Deputy is correct that if it were 30 GW it would be about €80 billion. It costs about €3 billion per gigawatt to develop offshore. It depends on whether it is fixed or floating but that is the rough guidance figure. It is enormous expenditure and it has the potential to employ tens of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: There are a lot of questions there. Enterprise Ireland has a stable of about 4,500 companies. The Deputy is right that most of them are focused on export markets and global growth, and that is Enterprise Ireland's remit. We have seen and are seeing Enterprise Ireland develop capacity to support and service this sector. We have a unit within Enterprise Ireland that is focused on this group...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I would say officially that everything is hunky-dory between the different Departments. In this case the relationships are good. There are a number of different Departments, including the Department of housing and planning, which has effectively designed and produced the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, MARA, and An Bord Pleanála, which will soon be a planning commission, has played...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Ukraine War (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I can confirm that officials from my Department are still investigating the recovery of a number of items, ostensibly of Irish origin, from Ukraine. The investigations are still ongoing and are complex in nature. The components in question are in circulation in many jurisdictions and may have been resold a number of times before being acquired by bad actors. This has required multiple...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Ukraine War (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I cannot give an exact end date on this. I will, of course, inform the House as soon as I can. All I can say is that we are taking it really seriously but that if one follows the supply chain network in terms of how a component part gets into a missile in a part of the world and then gets subsequently exported to another part of the world where there may have been multiple different actors...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Regional Development (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: She is pretty tough when she is in the Chair.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: On 24 October, the Government activated the emergency business flooding humanitarian schemes that provide enhanced support of up to €100,000 to business, community, voluntary and sporting bodies that have been impacted by severe flooding events caused by recent storms. The current schemes now cover counties Galway, Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Louth, Wexford and Kilkenny. We want to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The insurance industry does have a responsibility to work with businesses post flooding and not to simply write off parts of the country because we have a flooding event. The Government will play its part in humanitarian support, which is effectively what this is. The Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation implementing humanitarian supports for businesses. It is not the alternative to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (22 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy will appreciate that these are operational matters for IDA Ireland and not ones for which I have a direct role in. IDA Ireland has informed my Department that it had successfully tendered for a part-time Israel-based Business Development Consultant during 2021 with the contract commencing in February 2022 and that this contract ended 12 months later, at the end of January 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland’s trade relations with Israel are governed by a Free Trade Agreement as part of an overarching EU-Israel Association Agreement, which came into force in June 2000. The Association Agreement aims to provide an appropriate legal and institutional framework for political dialogue and economic cooperation between the EU and Israel. It is important to note that the Free Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 66 together. The Increased Cost of Business Grant (ICOB) was announced as part of Budget 2024 and will be targeted at Small and Medium sized businesses who operate from a rateable premises. Firms who do not have a rateable premises are not within the scope of this scheme. The total allocation for this scheme is €250m. It is important that I be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Under the emergency business flooding schemes the Government has made provision to provide up to €100,000 for small businesses, community, voluntary and sporting bodies directly affected by the weather events in Counties Cork, Galway, Waterford, Limerick, Louth, Wexford, and Kilkenny. These schemes provide urgent assistance to businesses that were unable, through no fault of their...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland's inaugural Team Ireland Trade Mission Week took place from the 31st of October to the 4th of November to South Korea, in line with a priority action set out in the Trade and Investment Strategy 2022-26, "Value for Ireland, Values for the World". The aims of the strategy include broadening the reach of Ireland's enterprises, diversifying into global export markets, thereby improving...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: On the 24th of October 2023, the Government activated enhanced emergency business flooding humanitarian schemes that provides support of up to €100,000 to business, community, voluntary and sporting bodies. The Schemes now covers areas impacted by recent severe weather events including Counties Cork, Galway Waterford, Limerick, Louth, Wexford, and Kilkenny. These schemes provide...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: On 6th September this year, I launched the Business Users Support Scheme for Kerosene to provide support to businesses that were impacted by significant increases in the cost of this fuel following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The scheme provided eligible businesses with a payment to reimburse them for half of their increased costs in the period from 1st March to 31st December...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) play an extremely important role providing their services direct to small businesses and promoting entrepreneurship within towns and communities across the country. They act as a ‘first stop shop’ at a local level providing expert advice and guidance, financial assistance, and offer a ‘signposting’ service for all government...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Following approval of the development of a National Industrial Strategy for Offshore Wind by Government Decision on 9th May 2023, my Department established a new Unit tasked with delivering on this objective recognising the vast potential the industry has for Ireland. The overarching objective of the Strategy will be to ensure that Ireland maximises the economic benefits associated with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Climate Change Policy (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I am, of course, concerned that many businesses have yet to embark on their decarbonisation and sustainability journey. We need to bring all enterprises with us as we transition to a more sustainable, low carbon economy. I am conscious that businesses - particularly smaller businesses - have many competing priorities at present. That is why I and my Department have been focusing on meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: According to the latest employment figures from the CSO’s Labour Force Survey, published on 24th August 2023, total employment stood at 2.63 million. There are now more people employed in Ireland than ever before. As per the CSO Statistical Release on Monthly Unemployment from early November, the seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate was 4.8% in October 2023. It is essential...