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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: My Department holds a number of public bank accounts for operational purposes, none of which incur bank interest or charges. The operation of bank accounts by agencies under the aegis of my Department is a day-to-day matter for the agencies in question, and not one in which I have a direct function. The Personal Injuries Assessment Board has informed me that it has incurred a charge of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Details of expenditure incurred by my Department and its Offices on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns from January 2017 to date in 2018 are set out in the following table. My Department uses external service providers having regard to its business needs for such services. In engaging such providers, the Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: An account of the investigative failures identified by Judge Aylmer is currently being finalised. The purpose of publishing this account is to understand the factors that led to such mistakes being made and to take appropriate steps to address these shortcomings. Earlier this month, Judge Aylmer granted approval to publish some of the transcripts of the trial, limited to the rulings of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Public Appointments Service (PAS), acts as the centralised recruitment, assessment and selection body for the Civil Service. My Department recruits the majority of our staff through PAS. There are however a small number of exceptions to this which are set out below. Redeployment On the dissolution of FORFÁS under The Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Act 2014, 54...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: On foot of the Met Éireann "Status Red" snow and ice warning initially for much of the East coast and subsequently for all counties, staff of my Department were directed to stay safely at home until the warning was lifted. In the communication to all staff, they were also advised to work from home where possible. No deductions in pay or annual leave were made to staff in my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The ODCE has played and continues to play an important role in facilitating compliance and enforcement of company law. There have been a number of successful high profile prosecutions over the past two years, on foot of investigations undertaken by the ODCE and the subsequent directing of charges on indictment by the DPP: - on 21 December 2016, a former Director of Anglo Irish Bank...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I am happy to inform the Deputy that the Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 was published on Tuesday 13 March. The Bill is now available on both the Oireachtas and my Department’s websites.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Reports (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: An account of the investigative failures identified by Judge Aylmer is currently being finalised. The purpose of publishing this account is to understand the factors that led to such mistakes being made and to take appropriate steps to address these shortcomings. Earlier this month, Judge Aylmer granted approval to publish some of the transcripts of the trial, limited to the rulings of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Data (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: From 9th February 2018 International Protection applicants have the right to apply for an employment permit. This is an interim measure until Ireland opts into the EU (recast) Reception Conditions Directive. To date no applications for an employment permit have been received from International Protection applicants by my Department. The Department of Justice and Equality inform me that on...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Casual Trading Regulations (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: There is no specific legislation under my area of responsibility which specifically refers to car boot sales. However, depending on the actual format and nature of such sales, they may come under two existing pieces of legislation. Under the Casual Trading Act 1995, “casual trading” means selling goods at a place (including a public road) to which the public have access as...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 393 to 395, inclusive, together. Since the Brexit Referendum, my predecessor, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, attended meetings of the Competitiveness Council on 29th September 2016, 28th November 2016 and 20th February 2017. My colleague, Minister Breen, attended the most recent meetings of the Council on 30th November 2017 and 12th March 2018. State...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: An application for a Critical Skills Employment Permit for the person concerned was received on 1st February 2018. The Employment Permits Section of my Department is currently processing standard applications received on 25 January 2018 and this application should be processed within the next two weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of Government Procurement (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 399 and 400 together. The State spends in the order of €12bn per annum on goods, services and works, and public procurement is a key element of the Government’s Reform agenda. Given the volume of spending, it is essential that a strategic approach is adopted and value for money is achieved. The Office of Government Procurement was set up...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland continues to highlight the benefits of expanding or locating in all of our regions, including in counties Cavan and Mongahan. Site visits do represent an important tool through which investors can be encouraged to invest in regional areas and the IDA always does its utmost to ensure that overseas firms consider all potential locations when visiting Ireland. It is important to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Site Visits (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The IDA remains committed to increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) in every region of Ireland by 30% to 40% by the end of the Agency's current strategy in 2019. Progress is being made towards that target, with half of all jobs created in the first three years of that strategy based outside of Dublin. IDA Ireland continues to highlight the benefits of expanding or locating in the regions...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Data (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 403 and 404 together. IDA Ireland’s performance in 2017 resulted in the third consecutive year of strong growth under the Agency's current strategy. By the end of last year, total employment in the Agency's client companies stood at 210,443, of which over 122,000 people are employed in IDA client companies outside of Dublin. I am working closely with...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ticket Touting (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table: Company/Organisation Number of Meetings Aiken Promotions 3 Consumer Association of Ireland 1 DoneDeal 1 Football Association of Ireland 1 Gaelic Athletic Association 1 MCD Promotions 1 StubHub 3 Seatwave 1 Tickets.ie 2 Ticketmaster 1 Toutless.com 1 Viagogo 1

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Communications Unit (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Department officials and representatives of the Enterprise agencies have engaged with the Strategic Communications Unit as part of the wider development of the Global Footprint 2025 initiative. This process is still ongoing. With regard to accelerating efforts to diversify source markets for FDI, IDA Ireland will establish a Pioneering Markets team within its Growth Markets Division,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategic Communications Unit (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: The Action Plan for Jobs 2018 sets out how the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) of the Department of An Taoiseach will, in conjunction with my Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other relevant Departments and agencies, coordinate a national Brexit preparedness public information and awareness campaign. This campaign has been discussed at a number of meetings...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (20 Mar 2018)

Heather Humphreys: Enterprise 2025 Renewed was launched on 9th March 2018 and sets out the aim to have 2.3 million people in employment by 2020.  This will be measured by reference to average employment over the four quarters of 2020. The objective is to ensure that, through the implementation of effective policies, we realise employment growth that is sustainable over the longer term and that job creation...