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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Minister of State is correct that the permit system is a short-term solution but we do need that sticking plaster at the moment. A constituent was on to me this morning whose holidays have been cancelled because the hotel in question has closed. We are encouraging people to holiday at home but they are getting their deposits back for holidays. At the moment the effective waiting time...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Yesterday it was 22 weeks.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Another short-term solution we could take is actually to make work pay, particularly within our tax and welfare codes. It should always be financially better for people to return to work. We still have 4.8% unemployment and 5.6% youth unemployment. We have a substantial number of people who are only willing to work three days a week because the system prohibits them from taking on overtime...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to support job creation in regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23489/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to support job creation in locations outside cities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23490/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Some eight in ten businesses are now struggling to fill vacancies. We need a suite of new and novel solutions to address this. The highest level of demand is across the banking, finance and insurance sectors. These are jobs that can be done in any part of this country. To achieve this, we need to make our regions far more attractive not just for employers, but for employees as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: As the Tánaiste knows, we discussed the idea of the hub-and-spoke strategy as set out in Project Ireland 2040 around the Cabinet table. The Government took the decision the designate Athlone as the new potential city, helping to attract IDA jobs and investment into the region and ensuring that it is now fast becoming the silicon heartlands, with a bigger percentage of the workforce...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: We have an ideal site in Carrick-on-Shannon for that. I want to focus on this pipeline coming to Athlone, which is very positive. However, as the Tánaiste knows, we have a challenge in Athlone on both the Roscommon and the Westmeath sides in terms of available development land. Yet, 15 minutes up the road we have 50 acres of development land with water, waste water, fibre optic cable,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: If we look at towns such as Roscommon that are-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: No. There are two questions grouped together. I have four interventions on two questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Standing Orders are quite clear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Standing Orders are quite clear. Where there are two questions grouped together, there are four interventions. The questions are in my name, so I have four interventions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will. If we look at towns such as Roscommon, they are reliant on indigenous employers. However, the supports for employers with more than ten staff are only focused on the export sector and the issue of import substitution is ignored. This strategy needs to change post-Covid, particularly when we have seen the threats we have had to supply chains. Will the Tánaiste review that? ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the work that his Department is undertaking to fully utilise broadband connectivity in increasing sustainable employment given that Ireland is set to become one of the most connected countries in Europe for fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23493/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: By June 2020, 58% of Irish households could access broadband speeds of 1 Gbps and we will have 100% of such coverage in the coming years. There will be 146,000 km of fibre-optic cable, a web of such cable with a geographic spread like none other globally. We must exploit this investment and generate foreign direct investment jobs in every single village in Ireland.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: We have a significant opportunity to attract foreign direct investment and staff into our provincial towns and rural areas. They are nice communities in which to live and work. That is thanks to investment through the urban and rural regeneration funds. We need to market and promote the whole package and not just a select few sites in a select few towns. We need a unique marketing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: It is the staff who will tell them in future and we need to attract the staff.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadband Infrastructure (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: Are we attracting the ones that will do that?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 45. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to assist private sector employers to support employees working from home and digital co-working hubs in local towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23491/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (19 May 2022)

Denis Naughten: 69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to implement the Government statement on the role of data centres in Ireland’s enterprise policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23492/22]