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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland have confirmed that they have not carried out a Skills Audit in County Wicklow. However, I am advised that Wicklow County Council have done so, should the Deputy wish to follow up with Wicklow County Council.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a key focus of the work of my Department and our Agencies. The availability of property and infrastructure solutions is a key factor in investment decisions and a robust property and infrastructure ecosystem can be the key differentiator in winning Foreign Direct...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: IDA has over 1,800 client companies within its portfolio employing 300,583 as at the end of 2023. Additionally, my Department estimates that for every 10 jobs generated by FDI directly, another eight are created in the wider economy. As requested, the number of IDA client companies and IDA-supported jobs for each county at the end of 2023 is shown below: County ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland's Regional Property Programme aims to ensure the supply of land, buildings and infrastructure in regional locations to remain competitive in attracting FDI to the regions. The IDA actively promotes available buildings and land in IDA Business Parks and high-quality buildings in private ownership through its network of overseas offices. It is essential, therefore, that the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business Scheme has successfully paid out €243m to almost 75,000 SMEs right around the country, including over 38,000 SMEs in the retail and hospitality sector. The ICOB scheme is now closed to registrations. The information you requested is the up to date information as at 7th October, the value of total payments includes double payments to hospitality, retail...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below outlines the expenditure in the past five years by the IDA Ireland on external legal fees for an FOI case concerning the release of a client survey to Byrne Wallace LLP: Client Survey - FOI 2020 €4,308.69 2021 €16,736.52 2022 €8,398.71 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business Scheme (ICOB) has successfully paid out €243m to date to almost 75,000 SMEs right around the country, including over 38,000 SMEs in the retail and hospitality sector. The ICOB scheme is now closed to registrations. Eligible businesses in the retail, hospitality and beauty sectors were granted a second payment under the Scheme. Local Authorities are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Government is committed to helping businesses by providing a range of targeted interventions and supports. As well as loans provided through the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, loans are available through Microfinance Ireland. Microfinance Ireland provides vital support to microenterprises by filling the lending gap in the market by lending to business that cannot obtain loans...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department considers engaging consultancy services in cases where there is not the necessary expertise to deliver a project in-house, in cases where an external assessment is deemed essential, or in cases where a project must be completed within a short time scale, and although the expertise or experience may be available in-house, performing the task would involve a prohibitive...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (9 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: In Budget 2025 I am pleased to say that I secured funding to continue to support measures that assist small businesses on their digital journey. Funding secured for the 31 Local Enterprise Offices in 2025 will be made available to provide for the Digital for Business programme, which has been extended to small businesses with up to 50 employees. This free consultancy support helps...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (9 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) scheme has successfully paid out €243m to almost 75,000 SMEs right around the country, including over 38,000 SMEs in the retail and hospitality sector. The ICOB scheme is now closed to registrations. On 15 May, the Government announced a second grant payment for retail and hospitality and beauty sectors for the same amount as the initial grant....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Ireland’s openness to trade, investment, people and ideas is a key national strength that has helped transform our economy and society into what it is today. In line with my department’s Trade and Investment Strategy – Value for Ireland, Values for the World, the Strategy seeks to proactively pursue trade, investment and marketing opportunities across the European Union...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Deputy, In line with my departments Trade and Investment Strategy – Value for Ireland, Values for the World, Ireland’s openness to trade, investment, people and ideas is a key national strength that has helped transform our economy and society into what it is today. As Minister for Enterprise Trade and Environment I led two joint Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business Scheme (ICOB) has successfully paid out €243m to date to almost 75,000 SMEs right around the country, including over 38,000 SMEs in the retail and hospitality sector. The ICOB scheme is now closed to registrations. As part of Budget 2025, I announced the Power Up Grant which builds on the success of the Increased Cost of Business Scheme. This scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reviews (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Government's Civil Service Renewal Plan includes a commitment to undertake a programme of Organisational Capability Reviews (OCR) of Government Departments and Offices to enhance their organisational development. An OCR of the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (DBEI) was carried out during 2018 by a Capability Review Team (CRT) from the Department of Public Expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Enterprise Sector (17 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Social Enterprises, mostly micro-enterprises or SMEs, are an important and growing part of Ireland’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, creating jobs and stimulating local economic activity, and are recognised as an integral part of Ireland’s broad enterprise policy landscape. The table below sets out the details of all social enterprise organisations or bodies funded by my...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below details the Current and Capital Budget Allocations provided to IDA Ireland under the A.5 Subhead each year from 2020 to 2024 as published in the respective Revised Estimate Volumes. Year Current Allocation Capital Allocation Total Allocation €,000 €,000 €,000 2020 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below details the Current and Capital Budget Allocations provided to Enterprise Ireland in respect of it's Jobs and Enterprise Development and Science and Technology Development programmes each year from 2020 to 2024 as published in the respective Revised Estimate Volumes. Subheads A.7 Enterprise Ireland and B.4 Science and Technology Development Programme Year ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below sets out the amount spent by my Department in respect of legal costs or legal services in the past 10 years up to September 2024. Year Legal Costs Amount 2014 €434,804 2015 €381,821 2016 €591,647 2017 €853,851 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The answer below has been compiled in respect of personal data breaches under the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). As the Deputy will be aware, the GDPR was introduced on 25th May 2018. From that date, Data Controllers are mandated under Article 33(5) of the GDPR to record all personal data breaches that occur within their organisations. These records may be reviewed by the...