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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ticket Touting (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: These include a ban on the use of bots to purchase tickets and a requirement on ticket resellers and secondary ticket platforms to indicate the row and seat numbers, where applicable, and standing area number of tickets. In addition to benefitting consumers, a mandatory information requirement of this kind would facilitate event organisers to cancel tickets resold in breaches of terms of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ticket Touting (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: The Minister is considering the options. We need good legislation here. That is the important point.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ticket Touting (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: We are not going to introduce legislation just for the sake of it. The Minister is currently examining the two Private Members' Bills and following that examination, she will consider her options.

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: I thank Deputy Kenny for his question. As someone with an agricultural background, I am very conscious of health and safety and the issues which may arise at marts. The Health and Safety Authority, HSA, is responsible for the enforcement of the relevant statutory provisions set out in the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and associated regulations related to workplace health and...

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Deputy Kenny spoke about common-sense solutions but people must use common sense themselves and recognise the dangers of mixing with animals. Many of the more modern marts have overhead bridges so that people can inspect animals from above. Under no circumstances should members of the public be in the passages between the pens or the pens themselves because cattle at marts are in unfamiliar...

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: I also sympathise with the individual concerned. Deputy Kenny is correct to point out that we often do not hear of the injuries incurred by farmers at marts. It is only when people are killed or suffer life-changing injuries that we hear about it. As I said already, mixing with animals is the third most common cause of accidents in the country. I will pass on the Deputy's concerns to the...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Data (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Creating more jobs in the regions is a priority for IDA Ireland and my Department. The Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and I will focus on doing everything we can in the fairest possible way to spread the investment across the country. The Government is working to ensure a more even distribution of foreign direct investment across the country. Last year, IDA Ireland delivered 99 regional...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Data (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: I do not agree with the Deputy. I remind him that 45% of the net 10,000 jobs created by IDA Ireland last year were outside the greater Dublin region.

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Data (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: This issue is not all about site visits. While site visits are important, it is also important to nurture the existing companies in this country. I advise the Deputy to look at the number of jobs that have been created by IDA Ireland. I commend the work the agency has done in this area. At least 70% of all new jobs come from existing foreign direct investment companies in this country...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Data (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: As I have said, the figures for the first quarter of the year can be misleading. I suggest a 12-month period should be studied to get a better picture in respect of site visits. There were ten site visits to the Deputy's home county of Cork in the first three or four months of this year. Site visits take place all year round. It is not the case that there is a certain number of visits...

Other Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Site visits represent a useful tool through which investors can be encouraged to invest in areas such as County Cork. IDA Ireland always does its utmost to ensure overseas firms consider all potential locations when visiting Ireland. It is important to remember that the final decision on where to invest always rests with the company concerned. I remind the Deputy that site visit activity...

Other Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: IDA Ireland is working hard to ensure that all these regions and sites are available for clients and potential clients. It is important to have the sites available. These are feasible tools to attract companies. In the end, however, it is up to the investors to decide where to put investment in the country. IDA Ireland is operating in a very competitive environment at the moment. That...

Other Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Every IDA Ireland site is on the radar. Let us consider the positives as well. Charleville is a fantastic dairy hub, especially with the work the Kerry Group is doing there. They make cheese strings there. There is an engineering hub nearby also. Millstreet has Alps Electric and Ballydesmond has Munster Joinery. Some really good companies are based there. Deputy Moynihan is right that...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Portfolio (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 and 42 together. I thank Deputy Kelleher and I acknowledge that I am answering the question for Deputy Scanlon. In 2017, IDA Ireland completed an advanced technology building in Sligo as part of its regional property programme. Abbot subsequently took ownership of that facility, thereby deepening its existing investment in the county further. The Deputies...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Portfolio (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Sligo is where we launched Project Ireland 2040. It is very much a part of our balanced regional development to ensure the north-west region grows. In 2017 some 559 people were employed across 25 Enterprise Ireland supported companies in County Leitrim. Sligo is a strong base for foreign direct investment, where 2,184 people are employed by 23 multinational companies. It is important to...

Other Questions: IDA Ireland Portfolio (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Deputy McLoughlin has been bombarding our offices on this matter as well, as has Deputy Scanlon. Balanced regional development is extremely important for the Government. We want to ensure that the regions attract industry, which is why the Government has highly ambitious regional job creation targets. This is why we have provided resources to the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and the local...

Other Questions: Job Creation (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: The programme for a partnership Government sets the clear ambition to have an additional 200,000 people at work by 2020, with 135,000 of those additional jobs to be outside of Dublin. My Department and its agencies have this ambition at the heart of our enterprise strategy and Action Plan for Jobs and good progress is being made towards that target. According to the CSO, the seasonally...

Other Questions: Job Creation (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: Ireland remains a very attractive location for FDI. The Deputy spoke about competing. It is interesting to note that just last week Enterprise Ireland and the IDA got together to bring indigenous companies together with FDI companies in three locations - Dublin, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's constituency of Limerick, and Sligo - where they competed with one another to subsupply into those FDI...

Other Questions: Job Creation (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: This question was asked by Members of the Opposition earlier today. It is a very good question and is an issue we are working on. The matter of upgrading skills is a matter for the Department of Education and Skills but we work very closely with it on this matter to outline the skills shortages that exist in the workplace at present. We are working together with third level institutions...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (24 May 2018)

Pat Breen: My Department, through its agency Enterprise Ireland and Local Enterprise Offices, supports companies in urban and rural areas to start, innovate and remain competitive in international markets, now and into the future. On an annual basis, Enterprise Ireland works with approximately 5,000 companies through a network of market and sector advisers based across 10 national offices and 33...