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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Moriarty Tribunal made two recommendations for changes to company law, as follows: - That a provision similar to section 172 of the UK Companies Act, 2006 be adopted, together with the adoption of additional implementation or enforcement measures. - That consideration be given by the Oireachtas, and/or by the Company Law Review Group, to enacting provisions similar to those contained in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Legal Costs (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Legal costs incurred to date in 2014 for my Department amount to €241,975.61. The estimated total of legal costs for my Department for the remainder of 2014 is €662,290. While it is not possible to definitively predict the amount which will be spent on legal costs for 2014, this figure represents projects of which I have been notified at this point. For example, legal costs...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Relations Contracts Expenditure (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The total external public relation costs incurred by my Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014 are as follows: Year 2011 (since 9 March) 2012 2013 2014 (incurred to date) 2014 (estimated to be incurred from 15 April to 31 Dec) Total External PR Costs Incurred €18,770 €5,268 €79,663* €923 €3,100 * €76,480 was incurred to provide the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 and 293 together. Working in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland, the Dublin BIC (DBIC) helps to refine early stage business propositions with high potential and helps the promoter to build an Investor Ready Business Plan. This is a very valuable service in supporting early-stage enquiries and start-up companies. The DBIC will also advise the promoter...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Business Innovation Centres (BIC’s) are independent companies limited by guarantee and led by Boards whose members are mainly from the private sector. There are four BIC’s located throughout the country as follows – Dublin BIC, Cork BIC, South East BIC based in Waterford and West BIC based in Galway. The BICs were established in 1988 as a European Union initiative and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Remit (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Since 1993, the City and County Enterprise Boards (CEBs) have been providing advice and assistance to micro enterprises across the country, such as the availability of financial assistance and other Government supports for businesses. As the Deputy will be aware, the CEBs have been dissolved with effect from today and replaced by Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) situated in the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The details of the number of complaints referred to the Rights Commissioner Service regarding breaches under section 18 of the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 for the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 are set out in the following table. Year 2012 2013 2014 (to end March) No. of complaints referred to RCS under section 18 of the OWT Act 1997 Statistics not available for 2012* 60 7...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Appeals (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: A Work Permit application in respect of the person named by the Deputy was refused on 30th January 2014. The level of remuneration stated in respect of an Employment Permit application is a key indicator of the skills and experience required for a job. This assists the Minister in determining the necessity for employing a foreign national. Therefore, in order to satisfy the Minister that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Access to Finance for SMEs is a key priority for this Government as evidenced by its importance within the Action Plan for Jobs process for the last 3 years. Again in 2014 Access to Finance has a crucial role to play in delivering the jobs agenda and the required cross Government work is continuing to address difficulties in the access to finance arena and to facilitate recovery and growth...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 299 and 300 together. I am informed by IDA Ireland that of the 4 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to Roscommon during 2013, 3 included a visit to the IDA facility in Roscommon Town. To date no tenant has been found for the building. There were no IDA Ireland sponsored site visits to County Roscommon during 2012 or to date in 2014....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 301 and 302 together. When this Government came into office, it had inherited a situation where more than 250,000 private sector jobs had been lost in the previous three years. This was primarily the result of relying on economic growth fuelled by a construction sector bubble and unsustainable consumption. At its peak in 2007, the construction sector...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) published the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland 2014 Report on the 1stApril 2014. This report compares Ireland’s cost competitiveness to other regions across a number of key business inputs: Labour costs, Property costs, Transport costs, Utility costs, Credit costs, Business and Professional Services costs, and Broader environment costs, such...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The 2014 Action Plan for Jobs, which was published at the end of February, recognises that regions that support strong and dynamic enterprises are crucial to Ireland's return to overall economic growth. The Action Plan includes a number of measures to be taken in 2014 to support competitive regions. For example, one of the mechanisms by which we will support enterprise development at...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The importance of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) to Ireland is recognised by the Government as being crucial to growth in our indigenous and FDI sectors and plays a key role in job creation. The Government’s overarching aim is to accelerate both the economic and societal return on our public investment in STI. In this context, the implementation of Research Prioritisation,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Securing Ireland’s future economic growth and sustainability requires a vibrant and productive indigenous enterprise sector. Improvements in these companies’ innovative capabilities will allow them to grow, increase their exports and substantially improve their levels of employment. Enterprise Ireland’s primary focus is on helping indigenous small to medium enterprises...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Ongoing monitoring of the performance of Irish companies and the range of enterprise supports available to them vis-à-vis their competition locally, regionally and internationally is an ongoing element of the work of my Department and the Enterprise Agencies with a view to ensuring that companies in Ireland have a complete suite of supports available to them to enable competition in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: With a budget of just under €80 billion and covering the period 2014 to 2020, Horizon 2020 is the EU's new programme providing access to European funding to researchers, research organisations and industry to engage in leading edge research, thus facilitating European economic recovery. Horizon 2020 is a core part of Europe 2020, the Innovation Union and the European Research Area and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Government continues to address the needs of the long-term and youth unemployed through the combined strategies of the Action Plan for Jobs and Pathways to Work. The aim of the Action Plan for Jobs is to improve the operating environment for businesses, to enable companies to start-up, grow and create jobs. The objective of Pathways to Work – which has a particular focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been, and will continue to be, an integral part of Ireland’s economic development strategy. Foreign-owned firms contribute substantially to Ireland’s exports, jobs, expenditure in the Irish economy and to Exchequer funds. FDI plays a key role in stimulating the development of ‘new’ sectors in Ireland, in enhancing our research,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 311 and 312 together. The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies. The survey shows that over the past three years there have been a total of 1,171 new jobs (gross) created in Co. Kildare in IDA Ireland client companies and 1,750 new jobs (gross) created in...