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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: To date, my Department has provided funding of €250 million, administered by Enterprise Ireland, to assist the establishment of some 270 Enterprise Centres throughout Ireland. In 2022, €5 million in funding was made available to Community Enterprise Centres though the Regional Enterprise Innovation and Scoping Scheme. Since 2017, Enterprise Ireland has administered...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The Health and Safety Authority are currently drafting a Code of Practice on Indoor Air Quality following a comprehensive review of the existing provisions on workplace ventilation in the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 and to establish what further measures could be considered in relation to workplace air quality. Following Health and Safety...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Sep 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 critical skills and ineligible...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: I was very pleased to accept proposals for the Employment Regulation Orders submitted for the Early Years’ Services Sector. The proposals are a result of lengthy and detailed negotiations before a Joint Labour Committee consisting of representatives from both the employee and employer side, and their commitment to improved workplace relations is to be acknowledged. This recognition...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: Ireland’s employment permits system is managed through the operation of the Critical Skills and Ineligible Occupations Lists which determine roles that are either professional occupations in critical short supply or those ineligible for an employment permit. The regime is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The Programme for Government committed to examining the role of the Local Enterprise Offices in these specific areas: - Expand the role of the Local Enterprise Offices, so they can go further in supporting local job creation and allow them to provide direct grant support to businesses with more than 10 employees. - Put in place the structures to enable a seamless transition from the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The employment permits system is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages, in circumstances where there are no suitably qualified Irish/EEA nationals available to undertake the work and that the shortage is a genuine one. The system is managed through the use of lists designating highly skilled and ineligible...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Cost of Living Issues (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The Government worked hard with the business community in Ireland on the difficulties they faced in trading over the last few years - especially with supports made available related to Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions they faced. We will continue to work with and support businesses, including those in the retail sector, as they look to get through the next challenges they face,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (15 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The 31 Local Enterprise Offices nationwide act as a ‘first-stop-shop’ providing advice and guidance, financial assistance, and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business. Their business advisors and mentors offer signposting to the programmes and supports that will help and encourage new entrepreneurs start and successfully run their own businesses. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (20 Sep 2022)

Damien English: Ireland has been an outlier to date among wealthy OECD countries in not providing for any statutory sick leave. It is not right that people feel forced to go to work when they are sick, and it is not good for public health.  Following detailed consideration of the issues surrounding the implementation of the statutory sick leave scheme, The Sick Leave Act will commence on 1st January...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Damien English: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising the genuine concerns from a local business which highlights the rising energy costs that they face. Government is acutely aware of the difficulties businesses have faced over the past number of years with the necessary COVID-19 restrictions and now in recent times with the increased cost of living and in particular energy costs. While the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (20 Sep 2022)

Damien English: Expressions of interest are received on a regular basis from business entrepreneurs seeking to join the EI Mentor Network. The criteria to be eligible to apply is a person who has built and scaled an organisation on a global basis, or been part of a senior team in doing so. Enterprise Ireland consider the mentor’s experience in the context of requests received from Enterprise Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that a request for a review of the refusal to grant an employment permit in this case was received on 19th August. That appeal is currently being considered by the Employment Permits team. I understand that the reviewing officer has been in contact with the applicant and is awaiting additional information before a decision can be made.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (22 Sep 2022)

Damien English: Ireland’s employment permits system operates to maximise the benefits of economic migration while minimising the risk of disrupting the labour market. It facilitates the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills or labour shortages in the short to medium term but balanced to ensure there are no suitably qualified EEA nationals available to undertake the work and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (22 Sep 2022)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that the request for a Stamp 4 Letter of Support was granted on 16thSeptember and that this has been communicated to the applicant.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (22 Sep 2022)

Damien English: Responsibility for the hospitality sector is within the remit of Minister Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. According to the latest available national employment figures, from the CSO's Labour Force Survey, employment levels reached 2.55 million in Q2 2022. We now have more people employed in our country than ever before, while the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (22 Sep 2022)

Damien English: Ireland has a comprehensive body of employment, equality and industrial relations legislation with which the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is mandated to secure compliance. Ireland’s body of employment rights legislation protects all employees who are legally employed on an employer-employee basis, regardless of what title is given to them. In relation to the issue of trial...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Sep 2022)

Damien English: I am aware of the May 2022 recommendation from the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work, on recognising COVID-19 as an occupational disease in health and social care and in domiciliary assistance, and, in a pandemic context, in sectors where there is an outbreak in activities with proven risk of infection. In due course, the European Commission are likely to update its own...

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

Damien English: Ireland’s employment permits system is managed through the operation of the Critical Skills and Ineligible Occupations Lists which determine roles that are either highly skilled professional occupations in critical short supply or those ineligible for an employment permit. These lists undergo periodic review, guided by relevant research and a public/stakeholder consultation. The views...

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

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that following the consideration of additional information received at review stage in respect of the person concerned (in the details supplied) a decision was made to award a General Employment Permit. The permit issued on 22nd September 2022.