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

Peter Burke: The table below provides the total costs associated for my Department in relation to trips abroad taken by Ministers in the Department in the past 5 years up to and including September 2024. Year Costs associated with Travel Abroad 2020 €6,322.19 2021 €9,757.00 2022 €38,485.03 ...

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

Peter Burke: The public relations services providers engaged by my Department and Offices of my Department together with details of the services supplied and the expenditure on each, from 2014 to 2018., are set out in the table below. My Department has not incurred any public relations services costs from 2019 to date and consequently has not engaged any third party companies to provide same. ...

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

Peter Burke: Details of advertising spend for both traditional and online advertising for the past ten years are set out in tabular form below. My Department did not undertake any online advertising until 2019. Year Traditional Advertising Costs€ Online Advertising Costs€ Total€ 2014 80,287 ...

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

Peter Burke: My Department has not been involved in any commissions of investigation in the time period specified and accordingly, no associated costs have been incurred.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The below table shows the number of staff that worked in my Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. Year Number of Staff Grade of each staff 2019 12 1 x PO 2 x AP2 x HEO4 x EO3 x CO 2020 14 1 x PO 2 x AP3 x HEO4 x EO 3 x CO 2021 12 1...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: My department has conducted five paid advertising campaigns to date in 2024. The purpose and cost of these campaigns, along with the agencies that conducted the campaigns are set out in the table attached.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: 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 is for businesses in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors who received a second payment of the ICOB grant. These businesses are now in line to receive a €4,000 Power Up Grant once they continue to meet the eligibility requirements. As was the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Sanctions (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy may know, votes on trade defence issues at the EU are confidential. The vote followed a thorough investigation by the Commission, in which it had concluded that the battery electric vehicle (BEV) value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidisation. At the vote of the Trade Defence Instruments Committee on 4 October, the European Commission’s proposal to impose...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Engagements (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: I can confirm that during my time as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, no media representative has travelled with me as part of a Government Delegation. I can also confirm that, since the formation of the Government, no media representative has travelled with the respective Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Employment as part of a Government Delegation.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: In Budget 2025, I secured €250 million for the next five-year iteration the Seed and Venture Capital Scheme which will run from 2025 to 2029 inclusive. This represents an additional €75 million, which is a 42% increase on the previous five-year allocation. The Scheme is administered by Enterprise Ireland and the amount that is committed in any one of the five years of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Museum Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Forfás was dissolved on 1 August 2014 and its functions were transferred to my Department. Since then, responsibility for science and research was transferred to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science with effect from 1 January 2021. All files held at that time in my Department relating to the policy areas covered under the Transfer of Functions...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform wrote to all Departments in late December 2023 advising of the intention to update the National Development Plan (NDP) ceilings out to 2026 and requested Departments should finalise their investment proposals by the end of January 2024. In this regard, the NDP as published provided my Department with total funding of €2.708 billion for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: I can confirm that there were no forensic accountants employed by IDA Ireland in 2023 or to-date in 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Budgets (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Revised Estimate Volume 2024, as published in December 2023, allocated total Capital funding of €644 million to my Department's Jobs and Enterprise Development Programme. The breakdown of this capital allocation is set out in the Table below: Programme A Jobs and Enterprise Development Subhead Capital Allocation €,000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Budgets (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Revised Estimate 2024, as published in December 2023, allocated total Capital funding of €644 million to my Department's Jobs and Enterprise Development Programme. The breakdown of this capital allocation is set out in the Table below: Programme A Jobs and Enterprise Development Subhead Capital Allocation €,000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Budgets (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Revised Estimates Volume 2024, as published in December 2023, allocated total capital funding of €221.63 million to my Department’s Enterprise Innovation and Commercialisation Programme. The breakdown of this capital allocation is set out in the Table below: Programme B Enterprise Innovation and Commercialisation Subhead Capital Allocation ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Budgets (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Revised Estimates Volume 2024, as published in December 2023, allocated total capital funding of €221.63 million to my Department’s Enterprise Innovation and Commercialisation Programme. The breakdown of this capital allocation is set out in the Table below: Programme B Enterprise Innovation and Commercialisation Subhead Capital Allocation ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Climate Action Plan (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy will be aware, last June I announced that €300 million will be available to drive the decarbonisation of Ireland’s industrial emitters over the coming years. The fund will be used by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland to support client companies to reduce their industrial emissions between now and 2030 through the Environmental Aid scheme. Enterprise Ireland is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Properties (22 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department does not own property. Accordingly, there are no vacant or residential properties owned by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.