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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 330 and 335 together. The arrangement of IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to individual locations throughout the country is a day to day operational matter for the Agency. I understand from IDA Ireland that there are many complex factors influencing investor location decision-making such as the increasing preference of investors...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Internship Scheme Data (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: My Department is a participant in the "JobBridge National Internship Scheme” providing work experience placements for interns for a 6 or 9 month period. When an opportunity arises to offer a JobBridge internship for my Department it is advertised on the JobBridge website and is open to eligible JobBridge applicants from all counties. In 2013 and to date in 2014 there were seven...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The issue of financial capability is one that has been highlighted by many as a major concern for SMEs, particularly new businesses, in the current economic environment. The Deputy will be aware that the Government, in an attempt to address these concerns announced in the Budget a specific provision for a subsidised pilot financial training programme for small businesses consisting of two...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumers Association of Ireland Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: An application for a grant payment of €45,000 from the Consumers’ Association of Ireland was approved by me in December 2013. The funding will be used by the Consumers’ Association of Ireland for an IT project that entails a system and software upgrade of the IT system to equip it for SEPA compliance and also to integrate the membership and marketing functions to enable...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Law Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: Article 7 of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013, No. 46 of 2013 confers powers on the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA) to impose a levy in order to defray the full costs to it of discharging the external quality assurance function with respect to statutory auditors and audit firms auditing Public Interest Entities. The intention is that this will be...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: Data management and analytics is a key enabler of business across all areas of economic activity, for example, in the food, manufacturing and financial services sectors. The overall ambition of the Big Data disruptive reform is to build on existing strengths to make Ireland a leading country in Europe in the area of Big Data and data analytics. There is no measurement of job creation directly...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Market Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The rapidly evolving ICT sector represents both a challenge and an opportunity for Ireland, and it is my intention and the intention of my colleagues in Government to harness to the greatest extent possible developments in this sphere to the benefit of the country. The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) published a report in November 2013 that projects more than 44,500 potential job...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Forfás report, “The Review and Audit of Licences”, which assessed 159 licences across key sectors of the economy recommended the introduction of an integrated licensing system. The Government considers this project to be of significant importance and positioned it as one of the Disruptive Reforms in the Action Plan for Jobs 2013. Such an integrated licensing system,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health Care Infrastructure (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Jobs 2013 included a commitment to establish a world renowned Health Innovation Hub (HIH) to drive collaboration between the health system and commercial enterprises leading to the development and commercialisation of new healthcare technologies, products, and services, emerging from within the health system and/or enterprise. In order to drive this initiative, a National...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: Since coming into office this Government has had a clear focus on assisting SMEs to establish, expand and export, with a view to driving economic recovery and creating jobs across the country. Access to finance is critical for SMEs and requires a range of Government interventions. At present bank lending is the primary source of finance for SMEs. The Government imposed SME lending targets...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: In line with the commitment contained in the Action Plan for Jobs, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has in 2013 provided funding support for the establishment of seven new world-leading large-scale SFI Research Centres. These centres consolidate research activities across higher education institutes to create a critical mass of internationally leading researchers in strategic areas which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Data (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: Forfas’s most recent report on Ireland’s cost competitiveness, “Cost of Doing Business 2012”, published in April 2013, indicates that our cost competitiveness has improved markedly over the last number of years. Between January 2000 and April 2008, Ireland recorded a 22.5% loss in competitiveness, fuelled by an unsustainable consumption and property boom....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 343 and 346 together. I initiated an analysis of the skills requirements for the manufacturing sector in 2012, and this was published in April last. This report, by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs/Forfas was developed in tandem with a wider Strategy for the Manufacturing sector up to 2020, launched at the same time. In relation to skills, a wide...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Data (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Annual Business Survey of Economic Impact provides a range of indicators on the client base of the enterprise development agencies, including IDA Ireland. The latest year for which data is available is 2012. Figures for 2013 will not be available until the 2013 survey is published later in the year. The value of goods and services sourced by FDI companies in 2012, the latest year for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Exports Data (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: At the heart of the Action Plan for Jobs is our determination to create a powerful engine of exporting Irish business. That is why we have doubled the number of trade missions, established new supports for exporting companies, protected the Enterprise Ireland capital budget and secured agreement for the recruitment of 20 additional staff in overseas markets despite constrained budgets. As...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Green Economy covers a wide range of sectors that have in common the objective of providing goods and services in a sustainable way that reduces the impact on the environment. In Ireland, it covers activities such as waste and water management, renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable food production, tourism, green financial services and green products and services. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The 2013 Action Plan for Jobs contained a number of measures aimed at supporting the retail sector. These included an initiative to increase the number of small businesses trading on-line and a project to streamline business licence application procedures for the retail sector. In addition, the Action Plan included a commitment to establish an Interdepartmental Group to consider further...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Bodies (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: The membership of my Departments Audit Committee, which is in full compliance with Civil Service requirements is as follows. - Member Date appointed 1 Ms Julie O’Neill (Chair of the Committee) May 2010 2 Ms Yvonne McBain June 2011 3 Ms Anne Troy March 2008 4 Mr Martin Shanagher June 2012 5 Mr Pat McCourt December 2012 Two members are Civil Servants and therefore are not in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Returns (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: According to the records of the Companies Registration Office, 18,177 annual returns were deemed to have been filed late in 2013. This figure represents 13.6% of all the annual returns received by that Office during 2013. The percentage of companies filing an annual return on time has steadily increased. 82.3% of companies filed on time in 2011, 85.2% filed on time in 2012 and that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (28 Jan 2014)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA Ireland that the former Braun Oral B site in County Carlow is available to the market through property agents Jones Lang LaSalle. The facility, which is privately owned, is a significant industrial complex comprising a series of interconnected manufacture and warehouse buildings totalling some 227,335 square feet on a site of approximately 29 acres and is available for...