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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County and City Enterprise Boards Funding (23 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: An Exchequer allocation is provided each year under the Estimates process for the funding of the County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) and comprises of both a Current and a Capital element. The allocation of funding to individual CEBs is conducted each year by the Central Coordination Unit (CCU) within Enterprise Ireland. The Current funding allocations are made in respect of the estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (23 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: Analysis of Enterprise Ireland’s client base suggests that, for every job supported in Enterprise Ireland’s client companies, an additional 1.3 jobs are created in the Irish economy. In the case of IDA Ireland, the analysis shows that every direct job created in the Agency’s client base generates an additional 0.7 jobs in the wider economy. There is no formal...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (23 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: Details of the cost per job sustained in Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland client companies in the 7 year periods from 2001 - 2007 through to 2005 - 2011 are set out in the tabular statement which follows. Costs for the period 2006 - 2012 will not be available until the 2012 annual reports of both agencies are published later this year. The cost per job sustained in each agency is calculated...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (23 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Forfás Annual Employment Survey reports on job gains and losses in companies that are supported by the enterprise development agencies. Details of the total number of jobs created and lost in IDA and Enterprise Ireland client companies are set out in the attached tabular statement. The County and City Enterprise Boards (CEBs) created 4,858 full-time and 3,772 other time jobs in 2012...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The National Employment Rights Authority has a role in terms of enforcement. As I said, I hope to bring legislation to the House before the summer. Already the changes we have made are showing a significant improvement, such as having a single point of entry, not having multiple hearings of the same source of dispute, having quick resolution as an alternative and scheduling hearings...

Other Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The credit guarantee scheme is an initiative that was called for by entrepreneurs, businesspeople and their representative bodies for several years. Despite commitments to deliver such a scheme, previous Administrations failed to do so. Upon taking office I sought and received Government support to design from scratch a new scheme which was successfully launched on 24 October last year. As...

Other Questions: Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: Taking the last question first, the Government is absolutely committed to SMEs, responsibility for which belongs to the Minister of State, Deputy John Perry. Under the Horizon 2020 framework, for which the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, is responsible, we are upping the target this year to 20%. We recognise that the future for Ireland is in developing an indigenous enterprise...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: There are many questions. On Deputy Murphy's point, we support crowd funding. It is one issue which is being examined in the course of this year by the group I established. My Department and the Department of Finance are involved in it. It offers potential. I accept the point made by Deputy Calleary that there is a delay in getting approvals. It is monitored by RedC, formerly Mazars....

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: I am aware of the issues surrounding this dispute since I became Minister and, indeed, before that time. I understand that initially attempts were made to resolve the matter by arbitration through the offices of the Labour Relations Commission; however, no constructive developments came out of these efforts despite the LRC remaining at the parties' disposal should it be again required. The...

Other Questions: Employment Rights Issues (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: As I said in the reply, the existing system I inherited is not fit for purpose and have I set about seeking to reform it. We have already introduced a large number of administrative reforms which are already having an impact. For example, we are seeing a turnaround in respect of access to rights commissioner services. Once the time lapse of notification ends, a hearing will generally be...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The credit supply clearing group was established in May 2009 to identify patterns of events where the flow of credit to viable businesses appeared to be blocked and to seek to identify credit-supply solutions relating to these patterns. The group worked to provide a clear picture of emerging lending patterns, while facilitating direct discussion by all the relevant interested parties in...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: That is quite a range of questions. The Credit Review Office is working extremely well. The real issue is that we need to see more businesses appealing decisions. There have been approximately 25,000 credit refusal decisions in total, not enough of which have been appealed, either internally in the bank or to the Credit Review Office. A strong message to businesses that are refused credit...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The potential of the manufacturing sector has been neglected in recent years. In consequence, as part of the Action Plan for Jobs 2012, I established a manufacturing forum chaired by Patrick Miskelly and supported by an analysis team in Forfás to develop a detailed strategy for manufacturing, which I launched last month along with a separate strategy on the skill needs of manufacturing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: There will be specific directed measures as I have outlined for start-up and capability funds directly targeted at the manufacturing sector. In addition, we will be using the funds we have launched, including the seed fund, small and medium enterprise fund, innovation fund and the development capital fund, to target manufacturing companies. Taken together, those funds come to €2...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The target was set on the basis of the analysis carried out by Forfás supported by active industrialists in the sector. The strategy shows that the changing nature of globalisation is opening up opportunities. We are moving to a more personalised, customised form of manufacturing, which creates opportunities. This year, we are setting a target within the action plan of €500...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The companies to which the Deputy refers, Google and Apple, between them employ more than 6,000 people in Ireland. These are real substantive companies providing significant employment and they are very competitive players. I repeat what the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Finance said: there are no special deals under our tax code with any company. This is categorically...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: I am surprised at the Deputy's remarks. I should not need to tell any Member of the Oireachtas that there are no deals in our tax regime. I am sure the Deputy was party to the debates on the Finance Bill. Our legislation is set out clearly. There are no special deals with any companies. Such special deals apply in some countries which are competitors of ours which spin their own tax...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Sinn Féin path is not sustainable.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: In recent years, there has been a continuing series of legal challenges to the JLC and registered employment agreement, REA, systems, including the 2011 Grace Fried Chicken case that resulted in the High Court striking down all employment regulation orders, EROs, and the recent Supreme Court ruling in respect of REAs. As the Deputies will be aware, on 1 August last, a new legal framework...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: This Supreme Court action was taken under the 1946 Act. It was not taken under the Act passed in 2012. It preceded that. That is important in terms of timing. In drafting the 2012 Act, we were aware of this pending action and have sought to make the legislation robust to such challenges. Obviously, we have not yet got a final order from the Supreme Court nor have we got advice from the...