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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 299 and 300 together. I am informed by IDA Ireland that of the 4 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to Roscommon during 2013, 3 included a visit to the IDA facility in Roscommon Town. To date no tenant has been found for the building. There were no IDA Ireland sponsored site visits to County Roscommon during 2012 or to date in 2014....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 301 and 302 together. When this Government came into office, it had inherited a situation where more than 250,000 private sector jobs had been lost in the previous three years. This was primarily the result of relying on economic growth fuelled by a construction sector bubble and unsustainable consumption. At its peak in 2007, the construction sector...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) published the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland 2014 Report on the 1stApril 2014. This report compares Ireland’s cost competitiveness to other regions across a number of key business inputs: Labour costs, Property costs, Transport costs, Utility costs, Credit costs, Business and Professional Services costs, and Broader environment costs, such...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The 2014 Action Plan for Jobs, which was published at the end of February, recognises that regions that support strong and dynamic enterprises are crucial to Ireland's return to overall economic growth. The Action Plan includes a number of measures to be taken in 2014 to support competitive regions. For example, one of the mechanisms by which we will support enterprise development at...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The importance of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) to Ireland is recognised by the Government as being crucial to growth in our indigenous and FDI sectors and plays a key role in job creation. The Government’s overarching aim is to accelerate both the economic and societal return on our public investment in STI. In this context, the implementation of Research Prioritisation,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Securing Ireland’s future economic growth and sustainability requires a vibrant and productive indigenous enterprise sector. Improvements in these companies’ innovative capabilities will allow them to grow, increase their exports and substantially improve their levels of employment. Enterprise Ireland’s primary focus is on helping indigenous small to medium enterprises...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Ongoing monitoring of the performance of Irish companies and the range of enterprise supports available to them vis-à-vis their competition locally, regionally and internationally is an ongoing element of the work of my Department and the Enterprise Agencies with a view to ensuring that companies in Ireland have a complete suite of supports available to them to enable competition in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: With a budget of just under €80 billion and covering the period 2014 to 2020, Horizon 2020 is the EU's new programme providing access to European funding to researchers, research organisations and industry to engage in leading edge research, thus facilitating European economic recovery. Horizon 2020 is a core part of Europe 2020, the Innovation Union and the European Research Area and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: The Government continues to address the needs of the long-term and youth unemployed through the combined strategies of the Action Plan for Jobs and Pathways to Work. The aim of the Action Plan for Jobs is to improve the operating environment for businesses, to enable companies to start-up, grow and create jobs. The objective of Pathways to Work – which has a particular focus on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been, and will continue to be, an integral part of Ireland’s economic development strategy. Foreign-owned firms contribute substantially to Ireland’s exports, jobs, expenditure in the Irish economy and to Exchequer funds. FDI plays a key role in stimulating the development of ‘new’ sectors in Ireland, in enhancing our research,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 311 and 312 together. The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies. The survey shows that over the past three years there have been a total of 1,171 new jobs (gross) created in Co. Kildare in IDA Ireland client companies and 1,750 new jobs (gross) created in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Any person who believes that s/he has experienced discrimination which is contrary to the Employment Equality Acts may seek redress by referringa complaint to the Director of the Equality Tribunal. A complaint can be made using the Workplace Relations Complaint Form and this form is available from the Tribunal or can be downloaded from the Workplace Relations website . Section 77(7) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Under the Industrial Development Acts the management of IDA Ireland’s property portfolio, including the leasing and rental of business units, is a day to day operational matter for the agency and is not one in which I have a function. I am informed by IDA Ireland that in 1983 the Agency entered into a 35 year lease arrangement on 6 units, each approximately 300 square metres, in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County and City Enterprise Boards Abolition (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: Under the provisions of the CEB Dissolution Act 2014, the designation of staff in the City and County Enterprise Boards (CEBs) to either Forfás/Enterprise Ireland (EI) or their Local Authority (LA) will take effect when the CEBs are dissolved on 15 April next. On the basis of the preferences expressed by those concerned, the following designations have been made: Grade No. Designated...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations Issues (10 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: My Department recently concluded an independently-chaired Industrial Relations Facilitation process with IMPACT on a number of issues relating to the dissolution of the City and County Enterprise Boards (CEBs) and the delivery of those functions through the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs). Following that process, my Department received a letter from the Labour Relations Commission (LRC)...

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, lines 29 to 31, to delete all words from and including “and” in line 29 down to and including “discretion” in line 31.

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 4:In page 13, lines 4 to 6, to delete all words from and including “in” where it secondly occurs in line 4 down to and including “superannuation” in line 6 and substitute the following:“upon and subject to such terms and conditions as are not less favorable to him or her than the terms and conditions in relation to the grant of such...

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 5:In page 13, lines 7 to 9, to delete all words from and including “and” in line 7 down to and including “discretion” in line 9.

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 6:In page 15, line 7, after “conditions” to insert “of service”.This is just another group of drafting amendments. The phrase "of service" was omitted in error from each of these lines during the drafting process. It was intended to refer to "conditions of service" in each case. This applies to amendments Nos. 6, 9 and 14.

Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (9 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: I move amendment No. 7:In page 16, lines 26 to 28, to delete all words from and including “in” where it secondly occurs in line 26 down to and including “superannuation” in line 28 and substitute the following:“upon and subject to such terms and conditions as are not less favorable to him or her than the terms and conditions in relation to the grant of such...