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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: At all times the Governments policy choices are considered in the context of the impact on jobs. This is at the heart of the Action Plan for Jobs process and has been a central feature of successive Budgets and The Pathways to Work programme. This level of policy focus has helped create an environment where 135,000 extra people are at work compared to when the first Action Plan for Jobs was...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: Under the IDA Ireland Strategy entitled “Winning” announced on 25 February 2015, it was proposed that one of the new planned Advanced Building Solutions would be on the IDA Dundalk Business and Technology Park. The design and planning process commenced in Quarter 4 2015 and the building is due for completion Quarter 1 2017. The total amounts of payments made by IDA Ireland to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a county-by-county basis only. From 2011 to 2015, there were a total of 128 visits by potential investors to County Galway. The year-by-year breakdown is set out in the following table.It is important to note that data on site visits is not an accurate measure of the level of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) activity in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a county-by-county basis only. Since 2011 there were a total of 1,969 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to various locations throughout the country. The following table sets out, on a county-by-county basis, the number of IDA Ireland sponsored site visits for each year from 2011 to 2015. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ State support service for micro and small businesses in each local area. They provide advice and direction, covering all government supports and requirements, to anyone who wishes to start a new business or expand an existing one. The LEOs provide funding for projects primarily in the manufacturing and internationally...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consultancy Contracts Data (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The names of external reports commissioned by my Department and Offices of my Department, the costs, the date of commission, the date or expected date of publication and the name of the external consultants are set out below for the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and to 26 January 2016. The data in respect of 2014 includes research and analysis which was commissioned by Forfás prior...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Inquiries (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: No tribunals of inquiry, commissions of inquiry or investigations have been established under the aegis of my Department since 1991 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The purchasing of promotional items by Enterprise Ireland is undertaken through a procurement framework in line with public sector procurement policies. This central procurement process is used to ensure value for money and centralised procurement.The variety of promotional items purchased is very wide and includes indoor and outdoor flags, pens, gifts for speakers at events, trade mission...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The payment for public relations and communications consultancy is a day-to-day matter for the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB), for which I have no direct function.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) operates as a self-funding State Agency through income generated from the fees charged to claimants and respondents. The amount of fees received by the PIAB during 2015 from claimants was €1,474,842 and from respondents was €10,281,622. Respondents’ fees are levied when the respondent consents to an assessment being made by...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Allowances (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: I have set out details of the travel related expenses claimed by me and the Ministers of State in my Department since the formation of the current Government in the following tables. The tables cover the period 2011 to 2015 and also include the annual kilometres travelled by car in undertaking official business. There have been no travel claims processed for January 2016 yet.The payments made...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The total expenditure incurred by my Department on media monitoring services in each of the years 2011 to 2015 is set out in the table below. In late 2012 my Department put in place a new arrangement for delivery of a press cuttings service which uses centralised technologies and has resulted in significant cost savings. Expenditure Incurred by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: It must be said that any situation where people are losing their job is something that is not welcome. We have worked very hard to minimise the number of job losses and I am glad to say that we have got job losses here to the lowest ever number in the history of both IDA and Enterprise Ireland.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: We have managed to reduce job loss levels but that is not to say that any job loss is very difficult for the families involved, and my sympathy is with the families involved in this situation. It is also a reminder to us that we are working in a very difficult environment where changes in the economic environment impact on companies. We all know that patterns of usage in the video rental...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: First, I totally reject the Deputy's complaints about the Government's record on worker protection. We twice increased the national minimum wage. We introduced protection for temporary agency workers. We restored the employment regulation orders, EROs and the registered employment agreements, REAs. We introduced collective bargaining legislation.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: We have been very balanced in our approach and we have presided over a situation where 135,000 extra people are back at work. They are workers with decent pay. Contrary to what the Deputy said, 90% of all those jobs are full-time positions. In the past two years, all the jobs created are full time. Involuntary part-time working is declining rapidly in this country. The pay and conditions...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: In those cases where sectors are poorly organised, we have reinstated REAs and EROs to protect those workers. We have increased the national minimum wage twice. Deputies such as Deputy Joan Collins pretend that those are jobs created by schemes. The truth is that 94% of the jobs created in the past four years are jobs that are completely independently created.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: A total of 60,000 jobs are in export-oriented companies which have won new markets for this country and created opportunities for Irish workers. I take my hat off to the businesses and workers of this country that have responded to the challenges. I admit that there are sectors which still face challenges. The video distribution sector has had real problems. Occasionally, one has sectors...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy should check the latest figures. I think the Deputy is wrong.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise 2025 sets out the potential to reach 2.18 million in employment and reduce the overall unemployment rate to 6 percent by 2020. This is based on the premise of export led growth and the additional indirect jobs stimulated by the activities of exporting enterprises in the wider economy. The ambition is predicated on taking the actions set out in Enterprise 2025 which are focused on...