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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA Ireland that it sponsored 7 site visits by potential investors to County Westmeath during 2012. IDA Ireland has explained that, when considering where to locate their businesses in Ireland, potential investors usually undertake extensive research to inform their decisions and that such decisions are taken having regard to criteria such as the availability of transport...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Expenditure (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The amount of funding that County Tipperary businesses received from Enterprise Ireland over the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 is as follows: EI Payments to Client Companies in Co. Tipperary Year Total Co Tipperary Payments 2010 €7,524,850 2011 €4,743,884 2012 €5,342,246 The table above reflects the fact that payments under the temporary Employment Subsidy...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: Microfinance Ireland (MFI) opened for business on Monday 1st October 2012. MFI will publish 2013 quarterly reports on its website www.microfinanceireland.ie. No applications for loans had been received by MFI from Westmeath based companies as at 31st December 2012. MFI is actively promoting the availability of its loan fund, for microenterprises with less than 10 staff, and is focusing on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (7 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: A spousal dependant permit application was received in my Department on 14th December 2012. Permits of this type can be issued to persons who are dependants of an eligible permit holder who have completed their education and have arrived in Ireland before their 18th birthday. Prior to making an application the applicant must have resided with the primary permit holder since the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Energy Conservation (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: On a point of clarification, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are not being phased out, but, along with other lamp technologies, are replacing incandescent bulbs. EU Regulation 244/2009 of 18 March 2009 provided, inter alia, for the phasing out of incandescent lightbulbs on a staged basis, from 100W and over, to 25W and under, in the period between 1 September 2009 and 1 September 2012. ...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Application Numbers (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The number of permits processed over the last two years broken down by economic sector are detailed in Appendix 1. The numbers of employment permit applications submitted and issued have markedly dropped since 2008 in line with economic conditions and the narrowing of eligible job categories and sectors where it was considered that a sufficient supply of labour exists and this drop is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Youth Enterprise Initiatives (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Government continues to monitor the requirements of all business sectors regarding access to finance and in that context will continue to assess the needs of youth entrepreneurs in the light of the operation of Microfinance Ireland, which opened for business on 1st October 2012. Microfinance Ireland are providing support in the form of loans of up to €25,000, available to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Corporate Governance (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The requirements regarding the preparation and publication of the accounts of limited companies and groups are determined by the First, Fourth and Seventh EU Company Law Directives and by the EU IFRS Regulations. These requirements are largely reflected in the Companies Act, 1963, the Companies (Amendment) Act 1986 and the European Communities (Companies: Group Accounts) Regulations 1992, as...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Programme (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Companies Bill 2012 was published on the 21 December 2012 and represents the largest substantive Bill in the history of the State. The Bill consolidates the existing 16 Companies Acts, which date from 1963 to 2012, into one Act and it also introduces a number of reforms, which are designed to make it easier to operate a company in Ireland. Set out across 25 Parts, the Bill contains...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Appeals (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: A work permit application was refused in this instance on 3rd June 2011 as new Employment Permit applications are normally only considered where it is established that a minimum salary of €30,000 per annum is on offer based on a 39 hour week and where the position on offer is one of the occupations currently eligible for a new employment permit. In addition it appeared from supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: My Department does not assess the means of individual citizens on an annual basis and, therefore, no costs have been incurred in this respect.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland Staff (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: Over the past five years a total of 13 staff members, who were qualified Certification Officers, have retired from NSAI. Five of these Certification Officers were subsequently appointed, through an open tendering process, to the panel of 28 subcontractors NSAI use to carry out Certification duties. These persons are drawn down, as required, on a subcontract basis. This outsourcing...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Appointments to State Boards (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: I wish to inform the Deputy that in summer 2011 my Department had, through the Public Appointments Service sought expressions of interests for what were then two vacancies on the Board of Shannon Development. There were a total of 71 expressions of interest in joining the Board of Shannon Development as a result of this exercise; however, I did not proceed with any appointments to the Board...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The most recent Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) published by the CSO, which covers Quarter 3 2012, shows that there were approximately 4,300 fewer people in employment overall in the economy in that Quarter compared to Quarter 3 2011. However, within those figures, the number of employees in the public sector reduced year-on-year by 16,200 (Table A3 of the QNHS refers)....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The International Start-up Fund was approved by the Enterprise Ireland Board on 13th July 2011, and has received several hundred enquiries since that date. These enquiries are developed on a continuous basis, and form a healthy pipeline of potential projects for the coming year. To date, 17 applications have been submitted to the Enterprise Ireland Investment Committee for consideration....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Initiatives (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: Under the Succeed in Ireland initiative, IDA Ireland will pay a finder’s fee of up to a maximum of €4,000 excluding VAT on the creation of a sustainable job i.e. a job that has been in place for two years. As the initiative has been in existence for only 11 months, no such fees have yet been paid. IDA Ireland has informed me that since the launch of the Succeed in Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: Over the period 2008-2012, Enterprise Ireland has supported a total of 413 High Potential Start Up companies. Enterprise Ireland expenditure on HPSUs in 2012 is set out in the table. However, in the time available, it is not possible to provide exact figures for job creation over this period, as it will require disaggregation of data across a number of different sources, for example: - Number...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: Details of the number of full time jobs created and lost in IDA and Enterprise Ireland client companies is set out in the attached tabular statement, which is drawn from the Forfás Annual Employment Survey I am delighted to say that 2012 was a particularly good year for job creation in Agency supported companies, with IDA client companies creating a total of 12,722 gross new full time...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (13 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: I have been informed by IDA Ireland that 25% of all investments approved by the Agency in 2012 were in locations outside of Dublin and Cork, while 35% of all investments announced in 2012 were in locations outside of Dublin and Cork. However, some of the investments announced would have been approved in previous years. Details of IDA Ireland announcements for 2012 are set out in the tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Upward Only Rent Reviews (14 Feb 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Land Conveyancing and Law Reform Act, 2009, abolished upward-only rent reviews for all new leases signed on or after 28th February 2010. When the Government came into office, it gave extensive consideration to abolishing upward-only rent reviews in leases signed before 28th February 2010. The advice received by the Government was that it was not possible to develop a scheme to...