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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (5 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) which became operational in 2012 and was revised in 2017, provided a State guarantee to participating lenders of 80% on eligible loans to viable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme (CCGS) was launched in September 2020 to assist businesses that were negatively impacted by COVID-19. The Scheme was developed in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (5 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department has not received a collective redundancy notification from Glen Dimplex. The rules governing collective redundancies are set out in the Protection of Employment Act 1977, as amended. Collective redundancies arise where, during any period of 30 consecutive days, the employees being made redundant are: 5 employees where 21-49 are employed, 10 employees where 50-99 are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department has not paid severance or redundancy in excess of €200,000 in the years specified by the Deputy. Regarding the Agencies under the remit of my Department, with the exception of Enterprise Ireland, no agencies have paid exit, severance or redundancy payments of €200,000 or greater in the years specified by the Deputy. Enterprise Ireland has paid no exit,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department paid severance and redundancy to Ministerial Personal Staff and Ministerial Advisers on the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil under the terms laid out by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and statutory entitlements under the Redundancy payments Acts 1967-2014. Additionally, my Department paid severance and redundancy to Ministerial Personal Staff...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (7 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Increased Cost of Business Grant will mainly provide support to many small and medium enterprises operating from rateable premises. A total of €257m has been allocated for the purposes of the grant. The administration of the Increased Cost of Business Grant (ICOB) will be undertaken in accordance with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between the Department of Enterprise, Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages in the European Union was published on 19th October 2022 and must be transposed by 15th November 2024. The Directive aims to ensure that workers in the Union are protected by adequate minimum wages allowing for a decent living wherever they work. The Directive includes three sets of measures: 1. One of the goals of the Directive is to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: I understand the comments made by my colleague Minister Richmond during the Dáil debate on the Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024, were referring to a press announcement regarding the Q4 2023 Labour Force Survey and latest Monthly Unemployment Release, and the significant positive trend of employment, rebalance and overall growth...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department engaged with An Garda Síochána in 2022 in relation to a matter involving written allegations and threats to an individual staff member.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: WindEurope is one of the largest gathering of Europe’s wind industry with over 12,000 attendees and over 500 exhibitors expected to attend the event in Bilbao this March. I understand over 16,000 people attended the same event in Copenhagen last year. This event offers a huge opportunity for Ireland to announce our plans in relation to offshore wind, including the recently published...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: Regional development is at the centre of IDA’s strategy "Driving Recovery & Sustainability 2021-2024". In that regard, the IDA is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development which can deliver complementary efficiency and equity gains, with the overall impact of helping to advance national development. IDA’s property investment in the regions is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 328 and 329 together. I acknowledge the correspondence that has been shared by Fergus O’Dowd TD. In response to the details supplied, if a business owner operates multiple properties in separate local authorities, they must apply to each specific local authority to which they pay rates. Each property must separately meet the qualifying criteria to be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has not paid exit, severance or redundancy payments of €100,000 and above, but less than, €200,000. Enterprise Ireland, an agency under the aegis of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, has confirmed that no exit, severance, or redundancy packages were paid in relation to their operations in Ireland. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Engagements (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: The 2024 St Patrick's Day programme saw the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Government Ministers take part in an extensive international programme to promote Ireland and Irish interests around the world. These visits provided an opportunity for Ministers to promote Irish trade and meet business leaders, to engage with political counterparts and to meet the Irish diaspora in different locations....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: While my Department does not generally provide direct funding to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it does provide funding for ad hoc humanitarian flood relief schemes which are delivered by the NGO sector. The figures in the table below refer to payments made under the Emergency Humanitarian Flooding scheme which provides a contribution towards the costs of returning business premises...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: Since my appointment as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I have not met with the organisation in question. My predecessor as Minister met with the organisation on 13th January 2022. An official of my Department had an online meeting with the organisation on 22nd July 2021 where they provided an overview of new initiatives. In addition, the organisation in question is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Sanctions (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: EU sanctions are instruments used by the EU to bring about a change in policy or behaviour by the target country, entity or individual. EU Member States are responsible for the implementation and enforcement of EU sanctions, as well as for identifying breaches and imposing penalties. However, decisions on the adoption, renewal, or lifting of sanctions regimes are taken by the Council of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: I appreciate the concern from businesses regarding the rising costs they are seeing at the moment and as they deal with the rising cost of doing business. It is important to note that the impact of rising prices is not unique to Ireland, but an issue facing all major economies around the world. The Government has advanced a range of measures to improve working conditions in Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Social Media (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department hosted nine Building Better Business conferences around the country in 2023. The aim of the conferences was to highlight the Department’s Regional Enterprise Plans and also the challenges of digitalisation and the transition to a low-carbon economy. The events were aimed at local businesses including SMEs and were attended by many State agencies and offices who advised...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Private Partnerships (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: My Department and its related Offices (the Workplace Relations Commission, the Companies Registration Office, the Labour Court and the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland) have no ongoing or planned Public-Private Partnership projects. With respect to the Agencies under my aegis, I have asked the them for the relevant information on this matter and will revert to the Deputy at the...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Simon Coveney: He is working for the country.