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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: That is the exact question I asked. We will be able to pay out the money before the end of the year. It will then be available and we expect to roll out the scheme through the three pillar banks which we have asked for expressions of interest in that regard.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It is part of the overall figure. There is Exchequer funding of €23 million in combination with an SBCI guarantee which is supported by the State and partially counter-guaranteed by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank. It is expected to leverage lending of €300 million.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It will form part of the overall fund. There will be no direct lending, rather the loans will be available through the pillar banks.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: The businesses must be viable enterprises that have been or will be demonstrably exposed to current or future negative impacts resulting from Brexit. Some 15% of their exports or imports must be with the United Kingdom. Companies will have to show they have been impacted on by Brexit. One sector that springs to mind is the mushroom industry.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: The additional funding of €12 million will reduce the €24 million in outstanding commitments to €12 million. This is like another instalment-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: The Chairman has asked the same questions I asked.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: We will monitor whether the final instalment will be paid next year.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Dublin Institute of Technology is included.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It was allocated pro ratabased on the amounts originally allocated to the colleges.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It is for a range of equipment to support research professors in the two universities.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: No, it is for a range of equipment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise Ireland has €17 million in savings on the capital expenditure side. A sizeable portion of the capital funding provisions across Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland are multi-annual in nature. Typically, the agency's capital programme awards span a three to four-year period and sometimes longer. For example, it is a six-year period in the case of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: We are dealing with 2017 budget and just want to be sure. The one thing we do not want to do is give money back to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We are putting it into other spaces where we are going to spend it. The budget for next year has been decided and I have not yet got into all those figures. The thing about what is in front of us is that we want to spend...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: The money was available to the ODCE and the reason we are viring some of it out is there were pay savings due to staff vacancies and non-pay savings due to lower than anticipated legal costs. As that money is not going to be spent, we are moving it out. I do not have a full briefing note on the matter, but a reform of the ODCE has been announced and it is something on which I will be...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: It is not that we did not give them enough money; it is just that they did not spend it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Recruiting staff is becoming more difficult. That is part of the problem, as is retaining staff who may see opportunities in the private sector to which they move on. That is the situation when, thank God, we are at a level of unemployment of 6%.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (7 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: This Government is strongly committed to regional development and my Department and its agencies are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are evenly distributed across the country, including across the Midlands.    The Midlands Action Plan for Jobs remains a key policy tool for supporting employment in that area. The second progress...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Data (7 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise Ireland is working with client companies through a network of market and sector advisers from 10 offices located throughout the country and 33 international office across the globe. 12 of these offices are located within the EU27 and another 8 EU27 counties are serviced by an Enterprise Ireland office from a nearby location. Enterprise Ireland’s Market Advisers across these...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Good Friday Agreement (12 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 provided for the establishment of several implementation bodies, including a 'Trade and Business Body'.  The British Irish Agreement Act 1999 and the equivalent UK legislation provided the statutory basis for the establishment of this body, known as InterTrade Ireland. Since its establishment, InterTrade Ireland - which is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Union Recognition (12 Dec 2017)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for bringing this matter to attention but should point out that under Irish law there is no requirement for an employer to recognise trade unions for the purpose of collective bargaining. Article 40 of the Irish Constitution guarantees the right of citizens to form associations and unions. It has been established in a number of legal cases...