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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Data (30 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise Ireland (EI) supports companies in urban and rural areas to start, innovate and remain competitive in international markets, now and into the future. In 2018 EI client companies reported strong employment performance with 215,207 people employed in companies supported by the agency and 18,846 new jobs created. The number of jobs supported by EI and the payments given to EI...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (30 Jan 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. I am pleased to say that significant progress is being made with 58% of all IDA employment now outside of Dublin. This represents the highest number of people employed by IDA clients outside of Dublin in the history of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (30 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The productive investments undertaken by my Department to support Irish based enterprise and innovation development are done primarily through the form of grant offerings to agency client companies and to higher education institutions. The Department is not directly involved in large-scale State infrastructural projects. Therefore no staff of the Department are involved in procurement...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (30 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 153 and 154 together. My Department is committed to supporting enterprise development throughout the country. Enterprise Ireland (EI), has approved funding to enable community groups throughout the country to develop the entrepreneurial talent in their area and support innovative business ideas to create jobs. In 2016 Enterprise Ireland awarded €3...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Portfolio (30 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: As is well-documented, IDA Ireland is helping ensure, through its Regional Property Programme, that property solutions are in place for overseas companies considering investing or expanding in regional areas. As part of Budget 2019, I allocated an additional €10m for the next phase of the IDA Regional Property Programme. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that programme includes...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Portfolio (30 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland has a total of five buildings in County Galway. Three of these premises are occupied and two of them are being actively marketed to clients through its network of offices in Ireland and overseas. The IDA does not own any buildings in Roscommon but operates a Business and Technology Park there with available land that is being actively marketed to existing and prospective clients....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Relations (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Ireland is a small open, export driven economy and as such Free Trade and Free Trade Agreements are vitally important to our ability to develop and prosper. We can see from both our membership of the EU and successful economic strategy, that Ireland has benefitted hugely from an open and fair, trading environment. Free trade has increased our collective prosperity, facilitated job creation...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (29 Jan 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 the practical preparatory actions to be taken over the coming weeks. Additional resources have also been distributed across Science Foundation Ireland and the Health and Safety...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (29 Jan 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: Brexit Supports (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: My Department and its agencies are providing 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 the practical preparatory actions to be taken over the coming weeks. The Future Growth Loan Scheme was announced in Budget 2019. The scheme will provide a longer-term facility, 8 to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Jobs Protection (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: On 25 July 2018, President Juncker and President Trump met in Washington to launch a new phase in the relationship between the US and the EU. They agreed to: - work together toward zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies (on non-auto industrial goods) and to work to reduce barriers and increase trade in services, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical products, as well as...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is the statutory body responsible for the enforcement of competition and consumer law in the State. Section 9(5) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 provides that the CCPC is independent in the performance of its functions, including its day to day operational work regarding complaints made to it and I, as Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is the statutory body responsible for the enforcement of competition and consumer law in the State. The CCPC provides information to consumers on personal finance and consumer rights issues as part of its consumer protection and financial information functions. This information is provided to empower consumers to make more informed...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Employment Permits section of my Department inform me that an application for a Critical Skills Employment Permit for the person concerned was received on 6th December 2018. My officials inform me that on 21 January 2019, this application was refused as the remuneration on offer was below the minimum annual remuneration of €60,000 per annum for a Critical Skills Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 279 and 281 together. Since the June 2016 decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, my Department and its agencies have worked to put a wide range of Brexit supports in place for businesses. The package of Brexit supports encompasses finance, advisory and awareness. My Department's focus is on helping firms to improve their...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Supports (29 Jan 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 the practical preparatory actions to be taken over the coming weeks. In addition to the direct supports outlined in the following table, my Department and I have been very...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Project Ireland 2040 (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: Over the next 20 years advances in digital technologies will transform the enterprise potential across the country, particularly in our smaller towns and rural areas. To maximise those opportunities, co-working spaces (or “eHubs”), are envisaged under Project Ireland 2040 as part of an ongoing suite of measures to encourage greater levels of collaboration between entrepreneurs...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Data (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: This Government is fully committed to the creation of high-quality and sustainable employment across Ireland, including in County Louth. There are now 3,903 people employed in IDA client companies in Louth with 139 net new jobs added in 2018. The new National Development Plan recognises the importance of Dundalk and Drogheda as key centres in the context of the Dublin-Belfast economic...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 284 and 285 together. Due to insufficient details supplied by the Deputy in relation to the company concerned, I am not in a position to provide the information sought. However, I can advise the Deputy that the registration of proposed company names is determined by the Companies Registration Office pursuant to the provisions of Sections 26 and 30 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Data (29 Jan 2019)

Heather Humphreys: The Patents Office is the national intellectual property office, under the auspices of my Department, that is responsible for the administration of intellectual property (IP) rights in Ireland. Its statutory functions are concerned with the granting of patents, the registration of trademarks and designs and the administration and maintenance of these IP rights. There is no registration...