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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Competence on Trade is vested in the European Commission under the Common Commercial Policy in the EU Treaties. In that regard, the Commission proposes legislative and negotiating Proposals which Member States and the European Parliament then consider. Once concluded, all Trade Agreements are considered by the Member States in Council for formal approval. In considering Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Brexit represents a significant challenge for businesses in Ireland, which cannot be underestimated. That is why my Department started developing supports for businesses from the time when Brexit first became a possibility. Government’s priority is to ensure that businesses around the country can manage risks and avail of any opportunities. This has informed the range of advisory and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

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 which meet the scheme criteria. The €23 million exchequer funding announced in the 2018 Budget (€14 million from my Department and €9 million from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine) has been leveraged to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

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 which meet the scheme criteria. The €23 million exchequer funding announced in the 2018 Budget (€14 million from my Department and €9 million from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine) has been leveraged to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Future Growth Loan Scheme makes up to €300 million of loans available with a term of 8-10 years. This scheme will be available to eligible Irish businesses and the primary agriculture and seafood sectors to support strategic long-term investment in a post Brexit environment. Finance provided under the scheme will be competitively priced and have favorable terms, for example no...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

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 which meet the scheme criteria. The €23 million exchequer funding announced in the 2018 Budget has been leveraged to provide a fund of up to €300 million over the lifetime of the scheme. Given its significant exposure to the UK...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department and its agencies are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are distributed as evenly as possible across the country. Galway has experienced significant gains in both employment and investment in recent years with a comprehensive range of supports provided to companies in the County by Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Local Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department and its agencies are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are distributed as evenly as possible across the country. Roscommon has experienced significant gains in both employment and investment in recent years, with a comprehensive range of supports provided to companies in the County by Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Reviews (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 (No. 10 of 2005) came into effect on 1 September 2005. The only current proposal to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 has arisen in the context of an ongoing review of Dangerous Substances legislation to overhaul the current licensing and regulatory regime for the retail petroleum and petroleum bulk storage sectors. My...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business. Details of the number of LEO supported clients and of the number of jobs in enterprises supported by the LEOs for 2018 are shown in the following table on a county basis, including the four...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Brexit represents a significant challenge for businesses in Ireland, which cannot be underestimated. That is why my Department started developing supports for businesses from the time when Brexit first became a possibility. Government’s priority is to ensure that businesses around the country can manage risks and avail of any opportunities. This has informed the range of advisory and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a General Employment Permit for the person concerned (details supplied) issued on 22 March 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: International Trade Policy is a competence of the EU Commission under the EU Treaties and defined as the Common Commercial Policy (CCP). Under this architecture the Commission represents Ireland and other Member States taking into account the needs of individual Member States and the collective good of the Union. As such, the EU is leading on all aspects of trade relating to Brexit....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: In 2017 IDA Ireland appointed Jacobs Engineering, supported by AOS Planning, to identify potential strategic land banks in Ireland that would be particularly suitable for the sustainable development of data centre projects. The study was commissioned to understand what locations in Ireland are best suited for this particular type of investment. The evaluation process,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Policy (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The recently launched Regional Enterprise Plans to 2020, which succeed the previous Regional Action Plans for Jobs 2015-2017/8, are a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to meet the Programme for Government commitment to prioritise balanced regional development. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) does not regularly produce county-level unemployment data, apart from at each...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: In the Programme for Partnership Government, agreed in early 2016, the Government set the target of an additional 200,000 new jobs to be created by 2020 with 135,000 of these for people located outside of Dublin. The recently launched Regional Enterprise Plans to 2020, which succeed the previous Regional Action Plans for Jobs 2015-2017/8, are a central pillar of the Government’s...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The number of young persons aged between 15 and 29 years of age that are classified as ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET) is measured in the OECD publication ‘Education at a Glance 2018’.  As demonstrated in the following table, 13.1% of young adults in Ireland in the 15-29 year old age bracket can be classified as NEET. The EU22 average for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is fully aware of the importance of maintaining and increasing participation rates in the labour market. Particularly, as we draw closer to full employment, it is essential we continue to provide enterprise in Ireland with a high-quality, adaptable and flexible talent pool. My Department closely monitors trends in labour market participation rates. Using the latest available...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise 2025 (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise 2025 Renewed sets out an ambition for job creation focused on quality employment that is sustainable over the longer term with job creation throughout all regions. It updated employment growth projections on the basis of the Economic and Fiscal outlook, Budget 2018 published by the Department of Finance in October 2017, and Central Bank employment projections published in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: While many of the recommendations in the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on the Cost of Doing Business relate to issues that are the responsibility of other Departments, there are a number of areas addressed by the Report that come under the remit of my Department including employment permits, the work of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, access to affordable finance for SMEs and...