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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Brexit Loan Scheme provides affordable working capital to eligible businesses with up to 499 employees that are or will be Brexit impacted and meet the scheme criteria. The €23 million exchequer funding (€14 million from my Department and €9 million from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine) has been leveraged to provide a fund of up to €300...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I fully appreciate the importance of ensuring that businesses, including those located in Donegal, are best able to withstand the pressures that Brexit may exert. That is why, for example, additional financial resources have been provided to support the strategic response by our enterprise agencies, including IDA Ireland, to Brexit. The Government has also taken forward a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Military Exports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is responsible for controls on the export of military and dual-use items from Ireland. All export licence applications, whether for Dual-Use or Military Goods are subject to rigorous scrutiny, and are considered having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No. 428/2009, the 2008 EU Common Position on Arms Exports and EU sanctions regimes. My officials are in regular...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Missions (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise Ireland is the state agency under my aegis with responsibility for helping Irish companies to internationalise and scale. The manufacturing and internationally traded services companies that Enterprise Ireland works with are a critical source of existing employment and job creation in every county in Ireland and are spread across a wide range of sectors. Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department recognises the key role that innovation has played in Ireland’s economic recovery to date. It contributes significantly to job creation, exports and investment, and the competitiveness of the indigenous enterprise base, and also to embedding the foreign direct investment base in Ireland. It is clear that a strong interdependence exists therefore between science,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Since becoming Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I have made jobs and enterprise in the regions my top priority. The Regional Action Plan for Jobs initiative is a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to create 200,000 new jobs by 2020, 135,000 of which are outside of Dublin. A key objective of each of the 8 regional plans is to have a further 10 to 15 per...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Since becoming Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I have made jobs and enterprise in the regions my top priority. The Regional Action Plan for Jobs initiative is a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to create 200,000 new jobs by 2020, 135,000 of which are outside of Dublin. A key objective of each of the 8 regional plans is to have a further 10 to 15 per...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ticket Touting (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Since receipt of the submissions to the public consultation on the resale of tickets, officials of my Department have engaged in follow-up discussions with sporting bodies, event promoters, consumer bodies, primary ticketing service providers and secondary ticket marketplaces. My officials have also liaised with public authorities in EU and EFTA member states with laws that prohibit or...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Department has undertaken significant research and consultation to better understand the challenges posed by Brexit for businesses in Ireland, and based on this work has designed a suite of supports for impacted businesses. I recently launched a €300 million Brexit Loan Scheme.  This scheme is designed to assist eligible businesses exposed to negative impacts resulting from...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Funding (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) was launched in May 2017. It is a €60 million competitive fund aimed at supporting significant regional initiatives that will build on sectoral strengths and improve enterprise capability across the regions. The REDF is intended to support the ambition, goals, and implementation of the Regional Action Plans for Jobs. The REDF is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland’s primary regional development goal, as set out in its current strategy, is to increase investment by 30% to 40% in every region of Ireland. Real progress has been made towards that target over the first three years of this strategy, with half of all jobs created by IDA client companies since 2015 based outside Dublin. Site visits do represent an important...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Despite intense competition, Ireland’s competitiveness performance remains positive. Ireland moved from 16th to 6th in 2017 in the Institute for Management Development’s World Competitiveness Yearbook. In addition, the World Bank’s most recent “Doing Business 2018” report shows Ireland is now ranked 17th out of 190 countries, an improvement of one place on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Since becoming Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I have made jobs and enterprise in the regions my top priority. The Regional Action Plan for Jobs initiative is a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to create 200,000 new jobs by 2020, 135,000 of which are outside of Dublin. A key objective of each of the 8 regional plans is to have a further 10 to 15 per...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department works closely with its counterpart in Northern Ireland - the Department for the Economy - regarding the operation of InterTrade Ireland (ITI), the cross-border body that assists SMEs all across the island in growing North-South trade.  ITI has been very active in working to assist businesses in Ireland address the particular challenges that Brexit may...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is continuing to work hard to help Irish businesses across the country to withstand the challenges and avail of the opportunities posed by Brexit. The long-term response to Brexit is for companies to become more competitive, more innovative, and to diversify their export footprint into more markets. In 2017, 8,269 people were employed across 94 Enterprise Ireland (EI) supported...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Reports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Policy responsibility for the waste sector lies with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment.  On 4 July 2017, a motion was passed by Dáil Éireann which called on the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to ask the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to report on the operation of the household waste collection...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Military Exports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is responsible for controls on the export of these military and dual use items from Ireland. Under Irish law, military export licences must be sought in respect of the goods and technology, and any components thereof, listed in the Annex to the Control of Exports (Goods and Technology) Order, S.I. 216 of 2012 which reflects the 2008 EU Common Position on Arms Exports and EU...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Government is strongly committed to regional development and my Department and its agencies - including IDA Ireland - are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are as evenly distributed as possible across the country. IDA Ireland’s primary regional development goal, as set out in its current strategy, is to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Funding (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I launched the Second Call of the Regional Enterprise Development Fund on Monday in Farmleigh.  This call will fund projects with the balance of the €60m remaining under the fund.  The first call under the Fund was announced in May 2017, with the results released in December. Twenty-one applicants representing all regions of the country secured a total of up to €30.5m...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (18 Apr 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is continuing to work hard to help Irish businesses across the country to withstand the challenges and avail of the opportunities posed by Brexit. The long-term response to Brexit is for companies to become more competitive, more innovative, and to diversify their export footprint into more markets. In 2017 Enterprise Ireland (EI) supported 1,733 jobs across 69 businesses in...