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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: That is the cost of associate membership.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Yes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: We would have to pay an extra €17 million as a once-off fee. It is due on the-----

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Based on today's figures, annual membership would cost €13.6 million. We would have to pay €17 million to join, so that brings it up to €30 million. It is expensive.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: I am satisfied that the €1 million will be sufficient to help the agency set up as an independent body. As the Chair stated, the legislation is before the committee. In fairness to the ODCE, it has been doing great work. It has increased its staff, built on its expertise and strengthened its capability to investigate increasingly complex breaches of company law. It is building on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a General Employment Permit for the person concerned (details supplied) issued on 22 March 2019.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: International Trade Policy is a competence of the EU Commission under the EU Treaties and defined as the Common Commercial Policy (CCP). Under this architecture the Commission represents Ireland and other Member States taking into account the needs of individual Member States and the collective good of the Union. As such, the EU is leading on all aspects of trade relating to Brexit....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: In 2017 IDA Ireland appointed Jacobs Engineering, supported by AOS Planning, to identify potential strategic land banks in Ireland that would be particularly suitable for the sustainable development of data centre projects. The study was commissioned to understand what locations in Ireland are best suited for this particular type of investment. The evaluation process,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Policy (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The recently launched Regional Enterprise Plans to 2020, which succeed the previous Regional Action Plans for Jobs 2015-2017/8, are a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to meet the Programme for Government commitment to prioritise balanced regional development. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) does not regularly produce county-level unemployment data, apart from at each...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: In the Programme for Partnership Government, agreed in early 2016, the Government set the target of an additional 200,000 new jobs to be created by 2020 with 135,000 of these for people located outside of Dublin. The recently launched Regional Enterprise Plans to 2020, which succeed the previous Regional Action Plans for Jobs 2015-2017/8, are a central pillar of the Government’s...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The number of young persons aged between 15 and 29 years of age that are classified as ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET) is measured in the OECD publication ‘Education at a Glance 2018’.  As demonstrated in the following table, 13.1% of young adults in Ireland in the 15-29 year old age bracket can be classified as NEET. The EU22 average for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is fully aware of the importance of maintaining and increasing participation rates in the labour market. Particularly, as we draw closer to full employment, it is essential we continue to provide enterprise in Ireland with a high-quality, adaptable and flexible talent pool. My Department closely monitors trends in labour market participation rates. Using the latest available...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise 2025 (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise 2025 Renewed sets out an ambition for job creation focused on quality employment that is sustainable over the longer term with job creation throughout all regions. It updated employment growth projections on the basis of the Economic and Fiscal outlook, Budget 2018 published by the Department of Finance in October 2017, and Central Bank employment projections published in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: While many of the recommendations in the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on the Cost of Doing Business relate to issues that are the responsibility of other Departments, there are a number of areas addressed by the Report that come under the remit of my Department including employment permits, the work of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, access to affordable finance for SMEs and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Imports and Exports Data (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 595 to 597, inclusive, together. The data which the Deputy has sought is provided in the files in the following links and has been sourced from data published by the Central Statistics Office.  Data in respect of the value of services trade in 2018 for individual countries is not yet available.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy is aware, having passed through all stages of the Oireachtas, this Bill was signed into law by the President on 17 March 2019.  In accordance with Section 8 of that Act, preparations are in train to fulfil the obligations contained therein to present the relevant report to Dáil Éireann within the period of time envisaged under that section. The Deputy will...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department and its agencies are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are distributed as evenly as possible across the country. Significant progress is being made with 58% of all IDA employment now outside of Dublin. In 2018 there were more IDA jobs added in the regions than at any time over the past 17 years.   There...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department and its agencies are working to provide extensive supports, schemes and advice to ensure that businesses are prepared for Brexit. These measures aim to assist businesses in identifying key risk areas and to facilitate the practical actions to be taken in response to the UK's exit from the EU. The Brexit Loan Scheme provides affordable working capital to eligible businesses with...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland's capital allocation for the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, as published in the Revised Estimates Volume, is detailed in the following table: Year Amount 2019 €142,000,000 2018 €132,000,000 2017 €137,000,000 The IDA’s 2018 capital allocation was reduced by €5 million as a result of the reclassification of its Winning Abroad...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (26 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The long-term response to Brexit is for companies across all sectors to become more competitive, more innovative and to diversify their export footprint into more international markets. The agencies under my Department have a wide range of supports available to enable companies to consolidate market share within the UK, and also to become more resilient by broadening their sales to other...