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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Funding (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136 and 317 together. The total amount of funding available for Pre-Commercial Procurement topics that have featured in FP7 ICT between 2007, when FP7 commenced, and 2012 is €18 million. A further €32.5 million of available funding is projected for 2013. For the years 2007 to 2008 no budget was available, and during 2009-2010 €4 million...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise Ireland does not levy direct charges on clients and at all times endeavours to keep costs to a minimum. However, where a client company elects to participate in knowledge events or to commission specific research in the field EI will charge a contributory fee. The fact that such activities are subsidised by Enterprise Ireland renders it a support to a business rather than a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: In the Action Plan for Jobs, the Government has set an ambitious target of having 100,000 more people at work by 2016. As I have pointed out previously to the House, achieving this target requires a transformational change to our economy. This Government, when it came into office, was starting from a position where more than 250,000 private sector jobs had been lost in the previous three...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Travel (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: As part of the Governments Ministerial-led St Patrick’s Day “Promote Ireland” programme, I undertook a 4-day, 4-city trade, investment and tourism mission to Germany. Germany is Europe’s largest economy and one of Ireland’s top-4 trading partners. In 2012 Irish goods exports to Germany, at over €7.5billion, were up 20% on 2011. Germany is also the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Appeals Tribunal (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Employment Appeals Tribunal is independent in the exercise of its quasi-judicial function and I have no direct involvement in its day to day operations. The Employment Appeals Tribunal has seen a significant increase in its caseload in recent years, as it is one of the front-line services directly impacted upon by the economic downturn. The largest increase in claims has been in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I have been informed by NERA that the complainant is a proprietary director of the company against whom he has made the complaint. This information is based on information sourced from the Company Registration Office records. NERA has been attempting, therefore, to establish the status of the complainant’s engagement with the company named in the details supplied as this will have a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The responsibility for the administration of Redundancy Payments is no longer within the remit of my Department and has instead transferred to the Dept. of Social Protection. I have been informed by that Department that its records indicate your constituent's full statutory entitlement to a redundancy payment has been met by his former employer. If this is not the case then direct contact...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I am informed that only one of the State enterprise agencies, under the aegis of my Department, has supported the company. In this regard, I understand from Enterprise Ireland that they made payments to Wicklow Enterprise Park Ltd in 2011 of €110,627 and €25,000 in 2012. The support in 2011 was a Community Enterprise Centre Capital Grant and in 2012 the funding was a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: This matter is a commercial decision for the company in question and it would not be appropriate for me to become involved in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Statistics (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies. Details of the level of employment, job losses and the number of new jobs created in IDA and Enterprise Ireland client companies in each year from 2008 to 2012 are set out in the tabular statements. I am delighted to say that 2012 was a particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The following table identifies the persons employed in my Department broken down by the salary bands supplied. The numbers include departmental staff in the following Offices of the Department: The Companies Registration Office, The Registry of Friendly Societies, The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, The Labour Court, The Labour Relations Commission, The National Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Criteria (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The employment permits regime is a managed system in that a 3rd country national (i.e. a national who is not a member of the European Economic Area and Switzerland) cannot be employed in the State without an employment permit, nor can an employer employ such a person without an employment permit. An employer who employs a 3rd country national requiring, but without, an employment permit is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 320 and 328 together. High growth sectors with continued potential to grow in the medium term include Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Health Life Sciences, International Financial Services, Agri-Food and Internationally Traded Services. During 2012 employment increased by 7% within the ICT sector, by 12% within the Agri-Food sector and by...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies. Details of total employment and the number of new jobs created in IDA Ireland client companies in each year from 2008 to 2012 are set out in the tabular statement. 2012 saw a strong performance in the level of foreign direct investment (FDI) won by...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Trends (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: In the three years before this Government took office, 250,000 private sector jobs were lost. It was clear what was needed was to transform our economy from one that became over dependent on property, construction and debt, to one focused on enterprise, innovation and exports. The Action Plan for Jobs is a key instrument in this objective and is designed to deliver measures right across...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies. Details of total employment and the number of new jobs created in IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland client companies in Co. Kildare in each year from 2008 to 2012 are set out in the tabular statements. I am delighted to say that 2012 was a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: Statistics on the creation of jobs by innovation and technology in the enterprise base are not available separately. Innovation and technology are elements of a series of inputs which are requisite for a job to be sustained in commercial enterprise – i.e. companies need to identify markets to sell their goods and services, they need to have finance in order to invest in capital and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: Job losses arise in the internationally trading sector of the economy for a variety of reasons including a deterioration in competitiveness, enhanced competition from sister sites, product and technology life cycles, global location rationalisation as a result of mergers and acquisitions, or, an amalgam of these factors. In the majority of cases involving relocation, IDA Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 330 together. The recently published Forfás report “Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2012” indicates that business costs have reduced significantly in recent years with overall price levels in the economy falling back to levels last experienced in 2002. Ireland is already rated highly internationally as one of the best...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Ireland has been one of the key pillars of Ireland’s industrial policy over the last 40 years. That policy has proved to be particularly successful as, at the end of 2012, there were 152,785 people employed in over 1,000 IDA client companies which, in turn, result in another 100,000 spin off jobs in the Irish economy. The net effect is that...