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

Heather Humphreys: Details of working groups currently established in my Department are set out in the following table. Working Group Focus of Work Membership Composition Brexit Coordination Group A forum, chaired by the Minister, comprising enterprise and regulatory bodies within the DBEI remit to update and discuss Brexit impacts and mitigation measures underway/planned Chief Executive (or Chairperson as...

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

Heather Humphreys: Customers who wish to complain about the quality of customer service provided by my Department can submit a complaint under the Department’s complaint procedures. These procedures, along with the Department’s customer charter and customer action plan, were updated recently in accordance with the customer service actions outlined for implementation in “Our Public Service...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (13 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. Galway has experienced significant gains in both employment and investment in recent years with a comprehensive range of supports provided to companies in the County by Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Local Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (13 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. Roscommon has experienced significant gains in both employment and investment in recent years, with a comprehensive range of supports provided to companies in the County by Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Reviews (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 (No. 10 of 2005) came into effect on 1 September 2005. The only current proposal to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 has arisen in the context of an ongoing review of Dangerous Substances legislation to overhaul the current licensing and regulatory regime for the retail petroleum and petroleum bulk storage sectors. My...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business. Details of the number of LEO supported clients and of the number of jobs in enterprises supported by the LEOs for 2018 are shown in the following table on a county basis, including the four...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (13 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Brexit represents a significant challenge for businesses in Ireland, which cannot be underestimated. That is why my Department started developing supports for businesses from the time when Brexit first became a possibility. Government’s priority is to ensure that businesses around the country can manage risks and avail of any opportunities. This has informed the range of advisory and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property Management (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is responsible for ensuring that Ireland has a robust legal framework to allow for the protection of intellectual property rights. Protection of such rights from piracy, whether digital or otherwise, is undertaken by rightsholders pursuing civil proceedings. A number of successful cases have been taken in recent years, which have included the establishment of a formal...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Development Initiatives (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 236, 238 and 241 together. Regional development remains an absolute priority of mine. I am focused on both supporting and sustaining existing employment levels in regional Ireland while also working to create new economic opportunities and jobs in every county of Ireland. I remain optimistic about the job creation potential of Irish companies across...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that it has no record of any application for an employment permit for the above named person (details supplied). The State's general policy is to promote the sourcing of labour and skills needs from within the domestic and/or other EEA countries. Where specific skills prove difficult to source within the State/EEA, an employment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Year on year, the recently published Q4 2018 CSO Labour Force Survey employment figures are overall very positive. In the year from Q4 2017 to Q4 2018 the figures show that employment continues to grow strongly with 50,500 jobs created, bringing total employment to 2,281,300, the highest number at work ever recorded. The number of people in employment has increased in six of the eight...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise development continues to be a key pillar in the creation of jobs in all regions across the country. I am currently in the process of finalising the launches of the new Regional Enterprise Plans in every region, with eight Plans launched to date, with the ninth Plan (South-East) scheduled to be launched by the end of this month. The Regional Enterprise Plans to 2020 are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding Data (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: International comparisons for Gross Expenditure on R&D (GERD) as a percentage of GDP are available for 2016 (latest data). Table 1 shows Civil GERD (excluding military expenditure) as a percentage of GDP for EU and OECD countries and of GNP and GNI* for Ireland in 2016. Ireland's Civil GERD as a percentage of GDP was 1.18 and as a percentage of GNP and GNI* was 1.46 and 1.84...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research Funding Data (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The following table shows Government Budget Allocations on R&D (GBARD) by funding Department for 2017 and each Department's GBARD as a percentage of total GBARD. GBARD is all the public funding allocated to R&D performed across all sectors of the economy, e.g. within the higher education sector, by businesses or by Government Departments and agencies. Government Sector...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The recently published CSO Labour Force Survey employment figures for Q4 2018, which are only available at the regional level, show that there has been excellent progress in employment growth in the Midlands region since the launch of the Regional Action Plan for Jobs 2015-2017.  From Q1 2015 (baseline year) to Q4 2018, there are 20,000 more people in employment in the Midlands,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Border region (including Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan) has shown very good progress in employment levels since the launch of the Regional Action Plan for Jobs 2015-2017.  From Q1 2015 (baseline year) to Q4 2018, a total of 8,200 more people are now in employment. Unemployment has more than halved in the Border region falling from 8.6 percent to 3.8 percent...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Portfolio (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: While IDA Ireland is focused on inward investment, the Agency manages its property portfolio for the benefit of both its own clients and those of Enterprise Ireland.  The IDA’s property team, for example, works closely with Enterprise Ireland to support the needs of indigenous companies who may be seeking appropriate properties. There is also ongoing engagement between the two...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Enterprise Development Fund Data (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Regional Enterprise Development Fund is a €60m competitive fund introduced by my Department and administered by Enterprise Ireland. It is aimed at supporting collaborative and innovative projects that can help to sustain and add to employment at a national, regional and county level. The REDF was designed to support the ambition in the Programme for Government to create an...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Competence on Trade is vested in the European Commission under the Common Commercial Policy in the EU Treaties. In that regard, the Commission proposes legislative and negotiating Proposals which Member States and the European Parliament then consider. Once concluded, all Trade Agreements are considered by the Member States in Council for formal approval. In considering Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (12 Mar 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Brexit represents a significant challenge for businesses in Ireland, which cannot be underestimated. That is why my Department started developing supports for businesses from the time when Brexit first became a possibility. Government’s priority is to ensure that businesses around the country can manage risks and avail of any opportunities. This has informed the range of advisory and...