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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 sets out the key parameters around the taking of annual leave and payment of same.  The terms and conditions of individual employment contracts may provide additional specifics within those parameters such as stipulations in relation to the entitlement to extra days' leave above what is statutorily required by the Act. Section 19 of the Act...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: A significant package of tax and expenditure measures to build the resilience of the economy and to help vulnerable but viable businesses across all sectors was introduced in Budget 2021. Government acknowledges the importance of ongoing supports such as the Employee Wage Subsidy Scheme and Covid-19 Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) to businesses and the role played by grant schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Trading Online Voucher Scheme offers a 50% co-funded voucher of up to €2,500 to help businesses, which have been trading for at least 6 months, to develop their online trading capability and includes training sessions that cover various topics, including developing a website, digital marketing, social media for business and search engine optimisation. This Trading Online...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (2 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Following receipt of an application I made, the Labour Court placed on its website a notice of intention to hold an inquiry into an application to establish an Early Years Service Joint Labour Committee pursuant to section 38 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946.  A remote hearingtook place on Friday 28th May 2021 and was open to the public. Section 39 of the 1946 Act as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Tánaiste was hoping to join us, but he does not happen to be here. If you wish to take Question No. 3 first, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I could take it, if that is agreeable to Deputies?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: I thank Deputy O'Reilly for this question and for agreeing to take Question No. 3 first. The retail area is a sector with high importance for the Department. That is the reason we ensured in the programme for Government that we have a Minister whose responsibility would include the area of retail to build on the success of the retail forum in recent years. The past year has been a very...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: To be very clear: we are very committed to the retail sector. That is why we are very focused on it in the Department and it is top of our agenda. It involves significant private sector employment, more than 300,000 jobs, albeit that during Covid approximately 70,000 were on the PUP. I hope to see the majority of them back at work. I have been very clear; I have met with Mandate to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: There are a lot of opportunities there and the Government is very committed to that as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: In case there is any doubt here, we are very committed to the online presence as well as the town centre presence. That is why in the programme for Government the town centre first principle exists across Departments, led by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, with our Department and the Department of Rural and Community Development. We will bring forward a framework...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: All workers, regardless of the sector of the economy in which they work, are covered by the provisions of the Work Safely Protocol. The Work Safely Protocol, which was published last month, is a revision of the Return to Work Safely Protocol, which was first published in May 2020. The revised protocol incorporates the most up-to-date advice on relevant public health measures and reflects...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: We all share these concerns and it is important to remind everybody that, while we are still waiting for everybody to be vaccinated, we have to follow the protocols and public health advice from all the authorities. These protocols were originally designed when there was no vaccine and no roll-out. They have been updated on two occasions since then to reflect the benefits of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health and Safety (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Deputy is making assumptions on the age of people working on the sector which he has not backed up by evidence. There is a great range of age cohorts working in that sector. It is a positive environment because there are opportunities for all age groups to work in it, similar to retail and other areas. There is strong regional balance, as well. On the work safety protocol, the HSA...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Company Law (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Company Law Review Group, CLRG, is a statutory advisory body charged with advising the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on matters pertaining to company law. Its membership is broad and representative of all stakeholders, including employee and employer representative groups, the Revenue Commissioners, insolvency and legal practitioners as well as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Company Law (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The plan of action has been discussed with the unions and stakeholders and they are happy with our plans on this. Once it goes through Cabinet, we can discuss it fully here. To be clear, we have had many discussions around Debenhams and the Duffy Cahill report. The authors of that report have not made the assertion that the Deputies keep making in here that it would have assisted or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Company Law (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: If the Deputy reads back over my answer, I did not say that she specifically was making that link. I said that Deputies in general had repeatedly come to the Chamber and tried to link the Debenhams and Clerys situations together. That is not based on the evidence presented to the Dáil or the courts. I wish to be clear on that. I will happily engage if people present the evidence they...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Delivering balanced regional growth is a core objective in the Programme for Government. Overseen by my Department, nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024 are currently being developed by regional stakeholders which will identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job creation across the regions. These Plans reinforce and build on the core activities of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: A 'Plan for Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency' was presented by myself and Minister Troy to the social partners  last week. It was well-received. I intend for the Plan to be published shortly. The Plan details short and medium-term measures that will further enhance the protection of employees who find themselves in a redundancy situation due to company insolvency,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Since the start of the pandemic, the government has responded rapidly, putting in place an extraordinary range of funding and advisory assistance schemes for workers and businesses including through the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) and the COVID Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS).   These schemes have been vital in sustaining...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: I want to firstly acknowledge that Ireland is in the recovery phase of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccination roll-out is essential to this recovery and to the re-opening of society and the economy. Our vaccination programme is very successful to-date with over 2.5million doses administered at this point. As stated at the launch of the recently revised Work Safely Protocol,...