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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (19 Jan 2022)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 100 together. The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from within the EEA at that time. The system is, by design, vacancy led and managed through...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (19 Jan 2022)

Damien English: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market.  The employment permits regime is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages in the State, required to develop and support enterprise for the benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The Government has worked to support businesses, including new businesses, through these challenging times with a wide range of measures for firms of all sizes, which included the wage subsidy scheme, business continuity and trading online grants, COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme, the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme, the Future Growth Loan Scheme, commercial rates waivers and warehousing of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (20 Jan 2022)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable job creation is a key policy priority of mine and the Government and is a core element of the National Development Plan. My Department plays a very strong part in implementing that policy goal through a variety of policy initiatives and investments in the regions. Through the Regional Enterprise Development Fund, the Border Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (20 Jan 2022)

Damien English: Enterprise Ireland (EI) does not record data by local authority area. However, jobs data is recorded on a county basis. The table below illustrates the jobs created by EI supported clients in each of the years 2020 and 2021, by county. Table: Jobs created in Enterprise Ireland clients 2020 and 2021 by County County 2020 Job Gains 2021 Job Gains* ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputy Cahill for raising this issue and giving me the opportunity to clarify and explain the situation on behalf of the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan. He sends his apologies that he could not be present tonight. First, I acknowledge the situation Deputy Cahill has represented with regard to landowners and families who want to progress their plans for building a house...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputy Cahill for raising this matter and firmly putting across the main concern he has for this year. Again, I will bring this back to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I am at pains to indicate on his behalf that he is not personally involved with every decision on each project being brought forward. His main aim was to increase the budget allocation to the national development...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: I would encourage any person looking to start, expand or pivot their business to contact their Local Enterprise Office as they provide a ‘first stop shop’ for all available Government business supports. In regard to a business operating in the construction sector, such as the one mentioned in the detail, it should be noted that the Local Enterprise Offices do not ordinarily...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: There have been a wide range of measures taken by government to provide support for business during the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, through my Department and others. Depending on the respective eligibility criteria for each relevant measure, a business may have qualified for various supports including the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme, the COVID Restrictions Support Scheme, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Schemes (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from within the EEA at that time. The system is, by design, vacancy led and managed through the operation of the occupation lists: the critical...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: Employers must comply with their legal obligation to make a statutory redundancy lump sum payment to eligible employees. I have no function in monitoring or enforcing those payments. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is the organisation which is mandated to secure compliance with employment rights legislation. If an employer has failed to pay statutory redundancy entitlements, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Fishing Industry (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: A Memorandum of Understanding on the monitoring and enforcement of the Atypical Worker Permission Scheme for non-EEA fishers employed on certain Irish-registered fishing vessels was signed by 11 Departments and Agencies in May 2016. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is one of a number of agencies which contributes to the enforcement of this scheme and has particular responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Fishing Industry (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) contributes to multi-agency efforts to enforce the Atypical Worker Permission Scheme for Non-EEA Workers engaged on Irish-registered whitefish fishing vessels over 15 metres in length. The WRC carried out 51 inspections in 2021 of fishing vessels that come within the scope of the Scheme. This included inspections undertaken by the WRC in September...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health Services Staff (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from within the EEA at that time. The system is, by design, vacancy led and managed through the operation of the occupation lists: the critical...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (25 Jan 2022)

Damien English: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market. The employment permits regime is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages in the State, required to develop and support enterprise for the benefit of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (26 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from within the EEA at that time. The fees for a General Employment Permit are €500 for a duration of six months or less, and €1,000 for...

Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputies Naughten, Ó Cathasaigh and the members of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands for their work on this and for bringing forward this motion based on their report. I really appreciate the work they did in gathering material and information from the relevant stakeholders to produce this report. As was...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a General Employment Permit application for the person concerned (in the details supplied) was received on 26th July 2021. On 25th November 2021 it was refused for several reasons which were as follows: - - Failure to fully comply with the requirements of the Labour Market Needs. - Failure to provide a copy of a statement issued...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (27 Jan 2022)

Damien English: I would encourage any person looking to start, expand or pivot their business to contact their Local Enterprise Office as they provide a ‘first stop shop’ for all available Government business supports. In regard to a business operating in the health and fitness sector, such as a gym mentioned in the detail, it should be noted that the Local Enterprise Offices do not ordinarily...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Jan 2022)

Damien English: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from within the EEA at that time. The system is, by design, vacancy led and managed through the operation of the occupation lists: the critical...