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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Environmental Schemes (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: My Department’s Agencies, as part of their funding offers, support investment in energy efficiency and environmental projects in their client companies, in compliance with the conditions of the Environmental State Aid Scheme agreed for Ireland 2014-2020 and recently extended to 2023. The legal basis for the Scheme is the enabling legislation of Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: My Department’s Agencies, as part of their funding offers, support investment in energy efficiency and environmental projects in their client companies, in compliance with the conditions of the Environmental State Aid Scheme agreed for Ireland 2014-2020 and recently extended to 2023. The legal basis for the Scheme is the enabling legislation of Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (24 Feb 2022)

Damien English: If the Labour Court receive proposals from the Early Years’ Joint Labour Committee (JLC) for the adoption of proposals for an Employment Regulation Order (ERO) they will examine the proposals and the report of the Chairman of the JLC submitted to it in accordance with the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 at Section 42B(12)(d). The Labour Court may, as it thinks proper, adopt the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I thank the Chair and other members for facilitating this Bill. We are in a position to move it through Committee Stage today, all going well. I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill. The Bill provides for a payment from the State which will ensure that workers being made redundant will receive the same statutory redundancy payment as if...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Deputy will appreciate I am not going to go through every amendment that was disallowed. They are not related to this Bill but I appreciate why she wants to bring them up and have them discussed. I would be happy to return at a later stage to do that. When I was at the committee discussing the Duffy Cahill report, I outlined our issues with that report and also outlined the changes...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, to delete lines 15 to 23 and substitute the following: “(b)whose entitlement to a lump sum payment under section 19 arises during the period beginning on 13 March 2020 and ending on 31 January 2025, and (c)who was laid off during the period beginning on 13 March 2020 and ending on 31 January 2022 due to the effect of measures...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: It is a fair question and observation. The difficulty we have is that the legislation must be linked to the restrictions. We are saying that lay-offs until 22 January 2022 are linked to Government restrictions. They are not lay-offs because of Covid-19, but because of interventions by the Government which restricted businesses' ability to operate at full capacity. Those restrictions have...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Not because of restrictions.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Absolutely. I refer to any restrictions that could result in people being laid off having been lifted by 22 January 2022. This legislation brings that date to 31 January 2022, well beyond it. I think we are being very fair in our assessment and that we have got this right legally. We made every effort to cover this situation. It was drafted in conjunction with everyone on this committee....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 6: In page 4, line 15, to delete “emergency”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, line 32, to delete “emergency”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 19: In page 4, line 36, after “Act” to insert “, other than section 4,”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 20: In page 4, line 38, after “Act” to insert “, other than section 4,”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 2021 4.(1) Section 11 of the Act of 2021 is amended by the substitution of “Schedule 1” for “Schedule 2”. (2) This section shall come into operation on the day on which section 11 of the Act of 2021 comes into operation. (3) In this section,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Damien English: I move amendment No. 21: In page 3, line 7, to delete “30 September 2021;” and substitute “31 January 2022; to amend the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021;”.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Weather Events (1 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) Flooding Relief Scheme is an emergency humanitarian contribution for businesses, (up to 20 employees), community, voluntary and sporting bodies, who are unable to secure flooding insurance, to assist them in returning their premises to their pre-flood condition. The Scheme may be invoked following a Government Decision to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Horticulture Sector (1 Mar 2022)

Damien English: A Review of Economic Migration Policy undertaken in 2018 concluded that while the employment permits system provides a robust framework to supplement skills and labour needs in the State, the current legislation imposes considerable inflexibility in its operation. In order to increase the agility and responsiveness of the system, the Review recommended that new legislation be initiated. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Local Authorities (1 Mar 2022)

Damien English: Following the dissolution of the County and City Enterprise Boards in 2014, the 31 Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) were established to promote entrepreneurship and to act as a “first-stop-shop” for providing advice and guidance and financial assistance to those wishing to start or grow their own business. Over the eight years since their establishment the LEOs have provided...