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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: Under its current strategy, ‘Driving Recovery and Sustainable Growth 2021–2024’, IDA is committed to delivering 19 Advance Building Solutions across six regions in 15 locations. Eight buildings are now complete, a further 5 buildings are expected to be "on site" in 2024 with the remainder in the planning and site selection stages. Moreover, the IDA has made considerable...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: The EU-Mercosur Agreement is designed to cement the close political and economic relations between the EU and Mercosur countries and represents a commitment to rules-based international trade. Since formal negotiations concluded in 2019, the global trade policy landscape has changed considerably. The rise in trade nationalism, the economic impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: It is essential that Irish enterprise has access to an adequate pool of high quality, adaptable and flexible talent – particularly in the context of a tightened labour market and the challenges this poses for businesses in many sectors of the economy. In order to meet the demand for skills, there is close collaboration across Government, in particular between the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Construction Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: Through the Housing for All strategy, and specifically the strategy’s Industry Capability Working Group, my Department is working with a range of partners across Government to ensure that the skills needs across all construction activities – housing new builds, infrastructural development, and retrofit – are fully addressed and we deliver on the targets set out in Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department and I continue to monitor developments in the business environment, and issues arising. I recognise that firms have faced a number of significant challenges over the last number of years, including Brexit, the COVID -19 pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine and the associated supply chain shock, the energy cost crisis and rising inflation along with wage demands, and rising...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: Enterprise Ireland supports both the start-up sector and established companies to increase sales and exports in global markets, which in turn results in increased employment. Through implementation of Enterprise Ireland’s strategy Leading in a Changing World 2022 – 2024, the agency has an objective to create an additional 45,000 new jobs by 2024, the highest ever level of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Diaspora Issues (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department is working closely with the Department of Foreign Affairs and its Embassy network, as well as other Departments, to implement the Government’s Diaspora Strategy, Global Ireland – Ireland’s Diaspora Strategy 2020-2025, which was launched in late 2020. The effective coordination of the implementation of this strategy across Government will be carried out...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: According to the latest employment figures from the CSO’s Labour Force Survey, published on 22nd February 2024, total employment stood at 2.71 million. There are now more people employed in Ireland than ever before. As per the CSO Statistical Release on Monthly Unemployment from early April, the seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate was 4.3% in March 2024. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (18 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: According to the latest employment figures from the CSO’s Labour Force Survey, published on 22nd February 2024, total employment stood at 2.71 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. This represents an increase of 6.1%, or an additional 155,000 jobs, compared to the same period in 2021, when total employment stood at 2.55 million. There are now more people at work in Ireland than ever...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (24 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department carried out a number of advertising campaigns in national, local, online and social media during 2022 and 2023 which included, promotion of nine Building Better Business events around the country in 2023, the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP), energy saving measures for businesses and a number of employment rights issues. The overall total advertising spend...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (24 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: Based on records available, my Department has not engaged the services of, or allocated funding to, the company in question.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Research and Development (25 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department is collating the information requested by the Deputy from the different funding Agencies falling under our remit and I will forward the that information directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (25 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: Searching for your first job or looking for a new job can be challenging. The Government provides a number of supports to help individuals on their journey to employment. JobsIreland.ie is the Public Employment Service of the Department of Social Protection. The website provides jobseekers with free job search and tools to create a profile to match their skills and experience with jobs....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Broadband Infrastructure (30 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department currently has ten PSTN lines in active operation in four locations. They are used for DSL Broadband connections and emergency phones in lifts. My Department has no ISDN or leased lines.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Union (30 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: The information requested is currently being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as it is finalised.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Broadband Infrastructure (30 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My officials clarified with the Deputy's office that this question relates to innovation vouchers and not digital innovation vouchers. The Innovation Voucher Programme is funded by my Department under the Science and Technology Programme, through Enterprise Ireland. The Innovation Voucher Programme is designed to build links between Ireland's public knowledge providers (higher education...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department in accordance with the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour and Circular 09/2009: Civil Servants and Political Activity, follows restrictions which have traditionally been imposed on civil servants engaging in political activity to ensure public confidence in the political impartiality of the Civil Service. Civil servants above clerical level cannot stand for local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: Both Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland provide innovation supports to SMEs on behalf of my Department. In the case of Enterprise Ireland, which plays a crucial role in fostering innovation among Irish SMEs, it offers a comprehensive suite of supports designed to assist small and medium enterprises in their research and innovation (R&I) efforts. These supports range from funding and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment’s Report on Offshore Renewable Energy is comprehensive, and forward-thinking, and sets out recommendations on diverse but connected topics. Shortly after the publication of the Report, a Memorandum for Government Decision proposing the development of an industrial strategy for offshore wind was brought forward on 9...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (2 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) is Ireland’s company law enforcement agency. The CEA is an independent statutory body equipped with significant enforcement powers required to carry out its statutory functions which are provided for in section 944D of the Companies Act 2014. These functions include to enforce and encourage compliance with company law, to investigate suspected...