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Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: We had a consultation period on the action plan for competitiveness. We had a lot of submissions from different sectors including people from various political backgrounds. We have responded to them in the plan. The committee will have its role in holding our feet to the fire in relation to the ambition that is set out across the 80 recommendations, with clear timelines, and the...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: It is not that they were left unclaimed. Everything that went forward that was correctly processed was paid. These are cohorts that did not indicate which sector they were from during the application process. That is one of the key areas the appeal mechanism will respond to. We had to set up a separate process for the 31 local authorities to administer the appeal, which is very...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: The local authorities are aware of the individuals who are going through the appeal process. To be very clear, this is not for new entrants. These are people who already were in the system. I would genuinely say the mechanism was designed to make it easy for businesses to draw down. Over the calendar year 2024, we got close to €0.5 billion out to businesses up and down the country,...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: There should be no reduction in expenditure for them. Critically, we are very much focused on making things simpler for all our local enterprise offices across the country. We have 31 of them. We started a simplification process and looked at the service level agreement between Enterprise Ireland and our LEO sector for the many schemes they administer. In my view, in some of them there...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: Unfortunately not. I would point out that we opened the scheme a number of times. We embarked upon a significant media campaign on local radio and there was a national campaign as well. It is always going to be the case that people get left behind. I do not want to see anyone being left behind but unfortunately it does happen. The critical thing is that sometimes when we have expenditure...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: There is an increase. As an economy, we have increased research and development spend by more than 400% in the last decade. This shows where we are going at the moment. If you look at the IDA last year, it spent €1.8 billion on research and development. It is looking for €7 billion over the next five years. All those figures are up. There are record levels of research and...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: Absolutely. That is why we have the Grow Digital portal, which we are trying to encourage people to use to access the sustainability portal and the digitalisation one which will essentially carry out an audit of their whole businesses. It will then come forward with the supports that are required. We specifically set up the national enterprise hub, which has 250 supports across 29...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for his questions. There are currently 302,000 supported jobs in the foreign direct investment sector, which is approximately 11% of our labour force. It is interesting to note the top ten indigenous firms currently employ 450,000 people. This demonstrates the internationalisation of our indigenous economy and how much it has grown. If we look at the metrics through...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank Deputy McCormack and I acknowledge his work on IDA investment in County Offaly. We had many discussions on Cardinal Health, which quite rightly links in with the issues he is raising. One of the key things in our FDI sector is if we get research, innovation and investment into it from an early stage, particularly those companies at risk, at a lower margin or are in danger of being...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: The Deputy has raised a few points. On regional development, that is where we want to see things going under the national planning framework. I am constantly pushing IDA Ireland to increase FDI in the regions. We are at approximately 55% at the moment. Enterprise Ireland is doing better at north of 60%. We need to get more investment into the regions. This is going to be critical. We...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: I am advised that a review of my Department's records from January 2015 to June 2025 indicates that there has been no expenditure on hairstyling, make-up, personal grooming, or general cosmetic expenses during this period.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: I am advised that a review of my Department's records from January 2015 to June 2025 indicates that there has been no expenditure on beauticians, make-up artists or hairdressing professionals, stylists or personal shoppers during this period.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: I have set out below advertising expenditure by my Department, 2015 – 2025 to date. My Department does not record the information in the format that you have requested. However, should you require further details I will endeavour to provide it to you. Advertising is conducted to support the work of my Department and develop public awareness across a broad range of our activities. In...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department is a client of OneLearning, the Learning and Development Centre for the Civil Service and regularly draws down training services from OneLearning. Where specific training is not available, my Department will source training from external providers to ensure business needs are met. In engaging such providers, the Department is mindful of the need to secure value for money and,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: The media consultancy services providers engaged by my Department and Offices of my Department, and the details of the services supplied and expenditure on each from 2015 to 2018 are set out below. Information regarding expenditure on media consultancy for the agencies and public bodies under my Department’s remit is not included as that is an operational matter for those agencies, and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: Given the volume of data that needs to be considered I am  advised it is not possible to provide the full information to the Deputy within the timeframe provided. I will arrange for the provision of the requested material to be provided to the Deputy at the earliest opportunity over the coming days.  

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (8 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: On 15 April, Government approved the General Scheme for the Short Term Letting and Tourism (STLT) Bill. The General Scheme was submitted to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel on 16 April for drafting and this work is currently underway. It is expected that the STLT Bill will go through the full legislative process in the Oireachtas later this year. This Bill when enacted will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (10 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the funding of legal studies is outlined in the attached table. The courses listed are all the legal studies and EU law courses that were commenced by staff in my Department within the last 3 years, their duration varies based on the course type and qualification received.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (10 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy may be aware, the recruitment campaign to fill the position of Chief Executive Officer of Fáilte Ireland is currently underway.  I understand that it is anticipated that an appointment will be made in the Autumn.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (10 Jul 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department recently reviewed its Generative AI Policy and an updated version has been issued to all staff.  The policy highlights some of the potential areas where Generative AI can deliver efficiencies but also sets out the risks of using such technologies and the mitigations that staff in the Department must adopt to avoid those risks.  This was based on guidance received from...