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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: Information in relation to IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors is provided on a county basis only. I am informed by IDA Ireland that during 2014 there were 205 IDA Ireland-sponsored site visits by potential investors to Dublin City and County. These visits were from new companies visiting the location for the first time and also from senior executives of existing client...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consultancy Contracts Data (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The following table details all fees paid by my Department to consultancy firms during 2014. Company Name Fees Paid € Ward Solutions 35,178.00 Rits 2,236.00 Version 1 4,174.00 Copenhagen Economics 167,788.00 Clarion consultants 52,275.00 Barberry Limited t/a Keating and Associates 3,136.50 Trigraph Professional Services Limited 4,305.00 CM International 6,000.00 Harvard...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The aim of the Action Plan for Jobs is to help enterprises to create employment in all regions of the country. While employment has increased nationally by approximately 80,000 since the start of the Action Plan process in 2012, not all regions are yet fully experiencing the benefits of economic recovery. The Unemployment Rate for the Midlands and South East regions, for example, stand at...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: My Department is proactive in ensuring that good performance on the transposition of Directives is consistently maintained. Within my Department, transposition is monitored through a customised intranet database which is used as a central management and information tool to track the implementation of Directives on an ongoing basis. This complements the central tracking and monitoring of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Programme (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 278 and 279 together. The County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013, which was published on 31stJuly 2013, has been subject to the Oireachtas pre legislative scrutiny procedure. In addition, the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill, although not yet initiated, completed pre legislative scrutiny on the draft Heads in December 2014. The following...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (14 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 280 to 282, inclusive, together. I can advise the Deputy that in the period in question there have been no secondments in or out of my Department to external private firms. A Staff Exchange Scheme between the Civil Service and the Private Sector was announced on a pilot basis by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in 2013. The scheme is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: In the wake of the international financial crisis the European Commission brought forward an extensive set of proposals for an Audit Regulation and a Directive in December 2011, inter alia, to provide for a strengthened and more coordinated approach to the supervision of auditors in the EU and to enhance the independence of auditors. Following intensive negotiations at Council Working Party...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Contracts Act Implementation (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Government approved the delegation of responsibility for implementation of the Construction Contracts Act, 2013 to my colleague, the Minister of State for Business and Employment, Deputy Gerald Nash, in November. Work is continuing on the preparations for the full implementation of the Act in the Spring. This will include the selection of a panel of adjudicators through an open...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 85 and 86 together. I am informed by IDA Ireland that there were 3 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to County Kerry in 2014, one by the end of the first half of the year and two further visits in the second half of the year. Due to client confidentiality and commercial sensitivity, IDA Ireland does not comment on upcoming visits by...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Regional Aid Guidelines enable the State to grant State Aid, at enhanced rates, to businesses in order to support new investment and new employment in productive projects in Ireland's most disadvantaged regions. This helps the convergence of these regions with the more advantaged regions of the Union. Regional Aid is also provided under Schemes for tourism grants, marine tourism, urban...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Data (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: In the 7 year period from 2008 to 2014, the total numbers employed in IDA Ireland client companies rose by almost 15,000, from 159,556 in 2008 to 174,488 in 2014, the highest level in the history of IDA Ireland. Details of the number of jobs created and lost in each of those years is set out in the following tabular statement. This strong job-creation performance took place against a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: There is no record in my Department of a current permit application made by the person named by the Deputy or of a previous application made to this Department by that person. The Employment Permits (Amendment) Act 2014 generally provides that employment permits may not be granted to non-EEA nationals to work as carers, as this occupation is included on the list of “. However, an...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Applications (15 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: There is no record in my Department of a current work permit application in respect of the person named by the Deputy. A work permit application in respect of this person was refused by my Department on 11th April 2014 for a number of reasons. It appeared from the information received that the position on offer was one of the occupations ineligible for an employment permit and that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: As of 9 January 2015 Microfinance Ireland (MFI) has approved 418 applications to the value of €6.4m supporting 947 jobs. All the figures that the Deputy has requested are available in the quarterly and yearly progress reports which are published on my Department’s website www.enterprise.gov.ie. The progress report detailing the analysis and performance up to the quarterly...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The information requested by the Deputy is set out as follows: Year €M 2007 33.2 2008 54.3 2009 68.9 2010 72 2011 72.3 2012 103.7 2013 109.5 TOTAL 513.9 The above figures are for payments made during the years in question under grant awards to Irish entities under the Seventh Framework Programme. In the period from commencement of FP7 in January 2007 to its completion in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: In its End of Year Statement published on 12 January 2015, Enterprise Ireland reported that client companies created 19,705 new jobs in 2014. This resulted in a net increase of 8,476 in the number of people employed by Enterprise Ireland supported companies, the highest net gain in the history of the agency. This increase in employment reinforces Enterprise Ireland’s strategy of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The number of special advisors in the employment of my Department at the end of each of the years 2007 to 2014 is set out in tabular format. Within the time allowed for reply, it has not been possible to precisely calculate the cumulative salary, travel, and other costs for each of the years in question to reflect changes arising from the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Transport (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: Details of the Ministerial drivers costs as requested by the Deputy since 2011 are as set out below in tabular format. As the costs of the salaries and allowances of Garda drivers under the scheme previously in place were paid by the Department of Justice my Department does not have those details and I, therefore, cannot provide a comparison of the cost of the two schemes. I will ask my...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) were established on 15 April 2014 on foot of the County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Act 2014. Upon dissolution, each LEO retained the individual allocations that were made to them as City and County Enterprise Boards (CEBs) at the start of 2014. In the case of the Longford and Westmeath CEBs, the initial current and capital allocations made are set out...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (20 Jan 2015)

Richard Bruton: Since coming into office this Government has had a clear focus on assisting SMEs, which make up over 99% of businesses in the enterprise economy in Ireland and account for almost 70% of people employed, to establish, expand and export, with a view to driving economic recovery and creating jobs across the country. The 2015 Action Plan for Jobs, which will be published shortly, will again...