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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Staff (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) was established on 1stOctober 2015 under the Workplace Relations Act 2015, and has responsibility for information provision, workplace advice, mediation, conciliation, adjudication, inspection and enforcement in relation to employment rights, equality and equal status matters and industrial relations.  Its staff forms part of the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Innovation Vouchers Initiative (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher Initiative was introduced in 2007 in order to drive an on-going innovation culture shift within small enterprise by promoting and encouraging knowledge transfer between Ireland’s public knowledge providers and the small business community and creating greater synergies between the two.  Under the initiative, vouchers worth €5,000...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Applications Data (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Microfinance Ireland (MFI) provides small loans through the Government’s Microenterprise Loan Fund to help start ups and established businesses to start up a small business or expand an existing business. MFI provides me with Quarterly Reports of progress, and these Reports are published on the websites of both MFI and my Department.  The Report for Quarter 2...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Enterprise Ireland offers a range of financial and non-financial supports to assist clients to win business and sustain and create jobs through all stages of the business development cycle.  Start-ups remain a key source of employment for the Irish economy and over time many start-ups will develop and grow and emerge as the medium and large sized companies of the future. Supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development Capital Scheme (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The establishment of the Development Capital Scheme is a critical action under the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs and has the objective of increasing the availability of risk capital and closing the ‘equity gap’ experienced by SMEs seeking risk capital in the region of €2million - €12million. The Development Capital Scheme forms part of the suite of new...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Seed Capital Scheme Applications (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Successive Governments, through Enterprise Ireland, have invested in the domestic venture capital sector for over 20 years.  This investment has sought to increase the availability of risk capital for SMEs to support economic growth through the continued development of the Seed and Venture Capital industry in Ireland,  thereby achieving a more robust, commercially viable and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Innovation Fund Ireland (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Innovation Fund Ireland is an Irish Government initiative designed to attract leading international venture capital fund managers to Ireland to compliment the domestic venture capital sector.  Innovation Fund Ireland funding involved Enterprise Ireland and National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) investing together and separately. The NPRF has now been reconstituted as the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority Data (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The following sets out the number of inspections and investigations and spend on safety initiatives by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) for the period 2011 - 2017 Year Inspections and Investigations Year Inspections and Investigations 2011 15,340 2012 13,835 2013 12,244 2014 10,719 2015 10,880 2016 10,460 2017 –  to  10 July 5,458 recorded year to date 10...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Appointments to State Boards Data (13 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: As previously advised, no former TDs have been appointed to any State Boards under my Department's remit. In relation to whether any former TD applied for a position on any of my Department's State Boards, my Department has bee advised by the Public Appointment Service (PAS) that all applications submitted to PAS are confidential and used only for the purpose of assessing...

Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am presenting the Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017 to the House for Second Stage discussion. This technical Bill is required to transpose Articles 1 and 3 of Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the member states relating to the...

Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: It has to be quality as well as quantity.

Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (14 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Employment Permits Section informs me that a Dependant Partner Spouse Employment Permit issued in this case on the 24th July 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 59 and 65 together. In November 2016 Government approved the drafting of Heads of Bill to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to remove the blanket exclusion of An Garda Síochána and members of the Defence Forces from scope of the OWTA and to bring them within scope subject to the application of the derogations permitted by the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Funding (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Pay and Non-Pay allocation and actual expenditure by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement for the years 2006 to the end of June 2017 is set out in the following table. Year Pay allocation  Pay expenditure at year end Non-Pay allocation  Non-Pay expenditure at year end 2006 €1.899m €1.915m €2.814m €1.440m 2007 €2.119m...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections Data (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy asked for the number of farm inspections carried out by the HSA. However, visits to farms by HSA inspectors include routine unannounced inspections to monitor compliance with health and safety legislation and also to investigate farm accidents. Typically in any one year there can also be between 60 – 90 investigations of serious and fatal accidents on farms. The...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislation (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that no fines have been imposed by the EU on the State, in respect of the late transposition of EU Directives coming under the remit of my Department, during the period 2007 to 2016, nor to date in 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: My Department accords high priority to ensuring that good performance on the transposition of Directives is consistently maintained. In that regard, transposition is monitored on a regular basis 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...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Construction Industry (26 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am aware of concerns regarding the issue of bogus self employment in the construction industry. Apart from significant losses to the Exchequer that can arise from cases of so-called bogus self-employment, the practice has serious implications from an employment rights perspective. In this respect, it is important that individuals are correctly designated regarding their...