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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 176 and 178 together. As Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, I welcome all announcements concerning the creation of jobs. All press releases relating to job creation issued by my Department’s Press Office are available at: . Details of Enterprise Ireland’s job and investment announcements to August 2012, and those of IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 and 181 together. Details of IDA Ireland’s job and investment announcements up to the 19th of September, 2012 are published on the Agency’s website – www.idaireland.ie. It must be remembered that some investment and job creation projects are not announced. The cost of supporting individual jobs in individual companies is confidential...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Vacancies (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 and 180 together. On 18th September 2012, An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny T.D. announced the creation of 300 new jobs for Electronic Arts’ (EA) European Customer Experience Centre of Excellence in Galway. The new jobs are being supported by IDA Ireland. The jobs announced will come on stream within a 3 to 5 year period, in line with the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: If an insolvent company is not put into liquidation and is struck off the Register of Companies for failure to file annual returns, it is open to the Director of Corporate Enforcement, pursuant to section 160(2)(h) of the Companies Act 1990 (as amended) to apply to the High Court for the disqualification of the directors of the company. The Companies Acts, along with other legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) and the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) are independent statutory bodies under the aegis of my Department. As independent quasi-judicial bodies, I have no role in the day-to-day exercise of their functions. The system of industrial relations in Ireland is essentially voluntarist in nature; the LRC cannot compel any party to a dispute to attend a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Numbers (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: Staff in my Department may apply for unpaid special leave in the form of a career break. A career break may be allowed for domestic, educational, travel or self-employment purposes and may be granted for a period of between six months and five years (three years in the case of self-employment). They may be approved where the normal operating requirements of Departments are not adversely...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Protection (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: At a meeting with the management of the company in question on the 13th September 2012, IDA Ireland was informed that the US based parent company had decided to exit the particular market in Europe. The company plans to sell as a going concern their European business interests in this sector which includes the manufacturing plant in Killorglin, Co. Kerry and a sales and R&D facility in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Responsibilities (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: There are two Minister of State assigned to my Department; Mr Sean Sherlock, T.D., Minister for Research and Innovation and Mr John Perry, T.D., Minister for Small Business. A range of functions pertinent to his responsibilities in the area of Research and Innovation was delegated to Minister Sherlock in the Enterprise, Trade and Innovation (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 4) Order...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Regulation (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Dáil Question No. 583 of 18 September 2012 in which I set out the actions being taken by my Department to reduce the administrative burden on business. My Department also coordinates the cross-Government measurement and reduction exercise towards the 25% target by the end of 2012. A project to measure the burden imposed by regulation under the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (27 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland is an autonomous agency whose statutory obligation is to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ireland and its regions. IDA Ireland’s strategy for Longford is to promote the county as part of an integrated Midlands Region. This is in accordance with the Agency’s Horizon 2020 Strategy, which aims to create 63,000 new jobs in Ireland over the period 2010 to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (27 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: Details of the number of site visits by potential investors to locations in Dublin and Cork on an annual basis since 2008 are set out in the attached tabular statement. I am informed by IDA Ireland that the Agency does not have the facility to a provide an instant cross reference of site visits for companies that have visited both Dublin and Cork. IDA Ireland’s strategy document,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: Before the clock starts, I take the opportunity to welcome Deputy Calleary to his new role as this is the first time we have had an opportunity to speak in the House. As Deputies will be aware, the Oireachtas enacted the Credit Guarantee Act 2012 in July 2012. I signed a commencement order on 30 August 2012. Since the Bill passed, considerable work has been undertaken to prepare the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: My Department has launched two new credit schemes. While these schemes were considered by the previous Minister, he did not deliver them. My Department has delivered two new instruments, the microfinance scheme which was launched last week and the loan guarantee scheme which will be, as stated in my reply, launched imminently, which means within the next fortnight. There are huge problems...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: Ireland suffered a fall of more than 300,000 in the number of people in employment in the three years to March 2011. The private sector experienced the brunt of the job losses, with the construction sector alone losing 150,000 jobs in the period. To reverse this trend and deliver our target of 100,000 extra jobs by 2016 will require a major transformation in the economy. The new economy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Acting Chairman for allowing the supplementary questions. I wish to make it clear that we are undertaking a massive transformation, as Deputy Tóibín pointed out. Construction collapsed and 60% of employment in this sector was wiped out. A total of 160,000 mainly male employees became unemployed. There is a huge job to create a new economy that will absorb people from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy has got it wrong. The food sector is one of the sectors that is doing very well. If one looks at the employment numbers within Enterprise Ireland, it has grown by something like 4% in the past 12 months. This is a sector that is growing and it is building its strength on innovation, new green products and breaking open new markets. If one looks at the data, one will see that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 45 and 46 together. Earlier this year, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, who has policy responsibility for the sick pay scheme, held a consultative meeting to discuss potential changes to the scheme in Ireland. The meeting was held in the context of the growing cost of, and dependence on, State-funded sickness benefit schemes and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: Deputy Calleary knows that budgetary decisions are collective decisions taken by the Cabinet. There is a consultative process and the Minister is open to consultation and giving groups the opportunity to make submissions. The groups have made submissions which, as the Deputy knows, signal that within small businesses, the absence rate is but a little over 2%. This is contrasted with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: Decisions by the Cabinet will be taken collectively and we will consider the evidence. No Minister comes to the table with a view that is closed. These issues will be debated and we will take decisions in due course. This is the approach that any Government must take. I am acutely conscious of the needs of business to remain competitive. We must promote employment and be wary of anything...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Enterprise Offices (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Bruton: Unfortunately, the grouping has already been determined. These are taken in order as people have won priority. I must answer them in order. This question is specifically about the youth guarantee and the EU Presidency, and therefore it has not been grouped with other questions on youth unemployment. Questions that relate just to youth unemployment have been grouped.