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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It will then come through.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It will do the shortlist, which the Minister selects from.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. The second question is in the same vein. The board is appointed by the Minister. The CEO is effectively selected or shortlisted by PAS and then appointed by the Minister. We have a board appointed by the Minister and a CEO effectively appointed by the Minister. The concern is that they might use the proposed section 13D to not attend an Oireachtas committee where matters might...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not whether they would be able to attend but rather, were a hearing to take place that might reflect badly on the Government. Is the Minister of State concerned that in that scenario, where the board and CEO are both essentially appointed by the Minister of the same Government, they could then use the provisions in section 13D as a mechanism by which to say they will not come here...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I know this is a hypothetical situation but I want a comment to say that this has been considered and that the Minister of State is not concerned about it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: They are my questions. I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 14 April 2024, how many companies had failed to engage with the Revenue Commissioners as of 15 May 2024 under the debt warehousing scheme; the total tax debt owed by this cohort; the breakdown of this information, by division and by NACE economic sector, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if own-resource income generated by IDA Ireland, and spent by IDA Ireland, is excluded from EU state aid rules. [22919/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 257. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the scope for the State to utilise the EU Chips Act Regulation 2023 to allow Ireland to provide State subsidies for chip factories and fab manufacturing and avoid EU state aid implications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22922/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of Irish SMEs using cloud, big data and AI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22721/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 270. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if own-resource income generated and spent by Enterprise Ireland is excluded from EU state aid rules. [22918/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 271. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the own-resource income generated by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland in 2023; the amount each was sanctioned to retain; and the amount that was remitted to the Exchequer as an extra Exchequer receipt, by agency, in tabular form. [22920/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be provided to schools in the Fingal local authority area to allow for the expansion of school places and classes for children with special educational needs; if particular focus will be given to accommodating children with special educational needs who do not have a school place for September 2024; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if individual local authorities have any discretion in terms of social housing tenants being able to transfer into a property, whether AHB or council owned, in a different local authority area. [22852/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a property (details supplied) will be connected under the National Broadband Plan with high-speed broadband. [23106/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 23 April 2024, to provide further detail in relation to the upcoming roll-out of the SUSI grant pilot scheme for part-time courses; the number of courses that will be eligible for the scheme; which courses or range of courses will be covered; when the scheme will open for applications; and if he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what his Department intends to do to increase the number of Irish businesses using big data, the cloud, and AI. [23124/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: My question relates to the number of Irish businesses using big data. I want to ask the Minister of State about the digital intensity of Irish businesses, specifically SMEs. While I appreciate some businesses cannot be any more digitally intensified, there is scope there. We know digitisation is one of the twin challenges facing our economy now and into the future. I ask for an update on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for the response. In his follow-up response, he might address how we compare with the targets set in harnessing digital 2030. The four Ds of demographics, decarbonisation, digitalisation and de-globalisation are key trends likely to transform our economy over the next decade. Increasing digitisation is foundational in terms of putting the economy on the front...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is a brave Minister who would mention the portal in the current climate, so fair play to you. The Minister referenced 22.7% of business using big data, which is a small figure. I appreciate he said the figures are not where he would like them to be. Of the 75% not using big data, a substantial portion could and should be using it. I would like a bigger focus on encouraging that. We...