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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Employment Permits Sections of my Department inform me that an application for a General Employment Permit for the person concerned was received on 14th April 2018. A decision was made to refuse the granting of the application on 11th June, 2018, and the applicant has been notified of this decision in writing and of their right to request a review of this decision in line with the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland continues to highlight the benefits of expanding or locating in all counties of Ireland to its client base. It is important to remember, however, that the final decision as to where to invest always rests with the company concerned. It is also the case that site visit activity does not necessarily reflect investment potential, as at least 70% of all new foreign direct investment...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Common Commercial Policy is an exclusive competence of the European Union under the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty extended this competence to cover foreign direct investment, as well as making the European Parliament a co-legislator alongside the Council on trade matters. The European Commission acts as lead negotiator on behalf of all EU countries...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Programme for Government Implementation (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: A key objective of the Programme for Partnership Government, from the perspective of my Department, is to provide a supportive environment for enterprise and employment and to deliver sustainable full employment. In the Programme, my Department was tasked with supporting a leap forward in the capacity and performance of our enterprise sector and delivering an environment that is conducive to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Education Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My colleague Richard Bruton TD, Minister for Education, has policy responsibility for the International Education Strategy for Ireland, 2016 - 2020. As part of that Strategy, Enterprise Ireland, which is an agency under my remit, is tasked with the promotion and marketing of international education. I understand that the Department of Education and Skills does not have a policy to promote...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Details of sections or parts of my Department's legislation from the last four years that have not been commenced are set out below. Act/Section of Act that has not been Commenced Reason Commencement Order has not been made Companies Act 2014 Section 4(2) Section 1325 Section 4(2) in so far as it relates to Regulation 6 of the European Communities (Mergers and Divisions of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: At my request, my Department is currently chairing an Interdepartmental Group to review the economic migration policies underpinning the current employment permits system, the purpose of which is to ensure that our current policies are fully supportive of Ireland’s emerging labour market needs, be they skills or labour shortages in certain sectors. A full report on the review is due...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) entered into force provisionally from the 21st September 2017. Provisional application is a standard part of EU trade agreements and allows only those parts of the agreement for which the EU has competence to be provisionally applied, pending the completion of each Member State’s procedures according to the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My ambition is to secure Ireland's position as the best place to succeed in business, delivering sustainable employment and high standards of living for all. The Deputy will be aware that the recently published National Development Plan (NDP) sets out a high-level financial and budgetary framework, which includes indicative Exchequer allocations, for each Ministerial Vote Group, over a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Data (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: On 31May 2018, the US announced that it will impose tariffs on steel (25%) and aluminium (10%) imports from the European Union to the US from the 1st June 2018. This followed the expiry of temporary exemptions granted to the EU in respect of the original Presidential Proclamations imposing these tariffs from the 23rd March 2018. The measures were introduced following an investigation by the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Data (12 Jun 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has not paid any EU fines in the years 2015-2017.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (31 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland are working towards ambitious targets to ensure that employment and investment are distributed as evenly as possible across the country. The employment situation in the South-East, which covers Waterford, Carlow, Wexford, Kilkenny and South Tipperary, has been steadily improving in recent years with IDA client companies in the region creating 1,200 new jobs...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (31 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Negotiating Directives for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with both Australia and New Zealand were agreed by EU Trade Ministers at the Trade Council on 22nd May 2018. The draft negotiating directives were first published by the European Commission on the 13th September 2017.  Since then my Department has been actively engaged at EU level, principally through the Trade Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Staff (31 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: In my Department, a dedicated Brexit Unit was established in 2016, led at Assistant Secretary level within the EU Affairs and Trade Policy Division, to coordinate and represent the Department and its Agencies response to Brexit.  During 2017, this Unit increased its staffing complement to lead on engagements with a broad range of stakeholder to further inform and validate this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Staff (29 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I understand that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission currently has 10 vacant posts. Seven of these 10 vacancies are due to be advertised in the next 4 weeks and recruitment will begin as soon as practicable thereafter. The sanction to fill the other three posts has not yet been requested. 

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (29 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Government is working hard to achieve the most even possible distribution of foreign direct investment across the country. IDA Ireland is focused on that same goal, with the Agency targeting an increase of investment of 30%-40% in every region as part of its 2015-2019 strategy. The Agency's 2017 results demonstrate that significant progress is being made...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Transport (29 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Since 1 May 2011 Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of An Taoiseach, An Tánaiste and the Minister for Justice and Equality, must use their own cars on official business. In that regard, I can confirm to the Deputy that neither I, nor my ministerial colleagues, Ministers Pat Breen and John Halligan are provided with a ministerial car from the Garda fleet. We use our own...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (24 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department, and other Government agencies operate a number of programmes and schemes to assist the start-up and expansion of small businesses. My priority as Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation is to drive the creation of high-quality and sustainable jobs around all the regions and counties of Ireland, including Donegal. The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) in Donegal is the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Proposed Legislation (24 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: On 27 June 2017, the Government gave approval to the drafting of the Personal Injuries Board (Amendment) Bill along the lines of the General Scheme. The purpose of the Bill is to amend the existing legislation to strengthen PIAB in terms of operational issues to ensure greater compliance with the PIAB process and encourage more claims to be settled through the PIAB model. The General...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Regional Action Plan for Jobs (24 May 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Since becoming Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I have made jobs and enterprise in the regions my top priority. The Regional Action Plan for Jobs initiative is a central pillar of the Government’s ambition to create 200,000 new jobs by 2020, 135,000 of which are outside of Dublin. A key objective of each of the 8 regional plans is to have a further 10 to 15 per...