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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: InterTradeIreland is a central part of An Action Plan for Jobs and running really good programmes on a cross-Border basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: Each year these programmes support 3,000 companies, North and South, in terms of trade and facilitate the placement of graduates from one jurisdiction with companies in the other. This allows the companies involved to grow their business in the other jurisdiction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: I do not think that is true. There are many other cross-Border initiatives which are not being developed by InterTradeIreland. In the context of INTERREG, there are infrastructural projects under way. There are a number of areas in which collaboration continues to take place. Obviously, both sides have experienced difficulties in the context of funding. In the light of budgetary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: I appreciate the Senator's deep interest in these matters. If it would be helpful, I will send him the metrics tracked by the Companies Registration Office, CRO. To be fair to that office, it has cut the number of days involved in the process of setting up a business and increased the percentage of interactions that can be completed online. The progress in this regard is very impressive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Deputy for the support he has shown for the regional strategy. He correctly noted that bigger infrastructural players are also important to the development of the regions. We see the regional enterprise strategy as an annual strategy which drives enterprise capabilities but also offers opportunities to incorporate regional strategies into longer term infrastructural planning on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: I thank congratulate Senator White on her nomination for the Lower House. I do not know whether that is a step up or a step down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: It is not an either-or situation between foreign and direct investment. The Senator would acknowledge that herself. She has a long history of supporting both sectors. There is a challenge in growing indigenous companies, but the last four years have been very successful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: This year, the net job increase in Enterprise Ireland companies exceeds that of the IDA. The gross increase considerably exceeds that of the IDA. We are seeing a new pattern evolve in what the Germans would call Mittelstand companies. Enterprise Ireland has played a significant role in that, developing the leadership for growth programme, which the Senator knows about. One sees the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: They are growing. They are globally ambitious now. Combilift is a good case. It recently committed to a greenfield site and will increase its numbers by 200. We are seeing more and more of those companies. That is part of it. The other part of it, as the Senator rightly says, is start-ups. To be fair to my Department, 70% of our money goes to Irish businesses and 30% to foreign ones,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: There are many tax incentives. For seed capital, as it used to be called, one can get tax relief on income tax paid of up to €600,000, so one could theoretically be investing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: It is slow. It is an educational process. It is about letting people see that to try and to fail is not the end of the world and getting more serial entrepreneurs. We also want to see more people supporting entrepreneurship in their own communities. I do not think official Ireland has some downer on the self-employed or small employers, but I take the Senator's point that we need to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: We have not set a date specifically for the midlands plan. It is at the front of the queue. However, we want it to be the best it can be. We are therefore not rushing it out too quickly. We want to ensure whatever we have learnt is applied. The national talent drive is crucial. With the establishment of the education and training boards, a big priority for this year is the engagement of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Authority Investigations (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: In 2006, an administrative miscalculation of dates by the Competition Authority (“the Authority”) led to the Authority being one day outside the statutory deadline to make a determination about a proposed acquisition by Topaz Energy Group Limited of Statoil Ireland Limited. The details, which are outlined below, were set out at that time by the (then) Chair of the Authority to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Measures (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Government is committed to the earliest possible implementation of the Construction Contracts Act, 2013 and, as a consequence, approved the delegation of responsibility for its implementation to my colleague, the Minister of State for Business and Employment, Mr. Gerald Nash T.D., last November. Work is continuing on the preparations for the full implementation of the Act, as the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Programme (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: The following legislation was enacted by my Department since March 2011. 1 January – 31 December 2012 Title of Legislation Total number of amendments tabled Competition (Amendment) Act 2012 16 Companies (Amendment) Act 2012 0 Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2012 49 Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 33 Patents (Amendment) Act 2012 1 Microenterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (12 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: The details as supplied have been forwarded to the relevant Inspector of the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) for investigation in relation to wages stated to be unpaid since 2010. If an employee believes that he or she has been constructively dismissed within the meaning of the Unfair Dismissals Acts it is for the Rights Commissioners Service and/or the Employment Appeals Tribunal...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Aid (12 Mar 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: IDA Portfolio (12 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 128 together. For reasons of client confidentiality and commercial sensitivity, IDA Ireland does not divulge the specific details of its marketing efforts in relation to any individual property other than to say that the property is being actively marketed by the Agency. Details of negotiations which the Agency may be engaged in or details...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (12 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: Firstly I should state that I fully understand the concerns of the workers and their families as they receive this very difficult news. All the supports of the State will be made available to support the workers, as and when needed, and for the creation of jobs in the area. I should also point out that I had engaged with senior management of the company in question and urged them to...