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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The sinking of the Tit Bonhomme and the subsequent tragic loss of life is of deep concern to my Department. One of the key objectives of my Department is that of ensuring the protection of employment rights and worker health and safety. This objective is shared across a number of other Government Departments at a sectoral level. In the case of the Tit Bonhomme, I welcome the response of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA Ireland that, having regard to its statutory responsibility for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Ireland, it will continue to promote Kerry as part of its marketing efforts, in response to specific client queries and also on an opportunistic basis. At the end of 2012 there were 12 IDA Ireland supported companies in Kerry with total employment of circa 1,600...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The recently published Forfás report "Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2012" indicates that property costs in Ireland have reduced significantly in recent years. Construction costs and rental costs for both office and industrial space have fallen dramatically for new businesses, since the collapse of the property bubble. Rental costs for new leases of office space in Dublin, for...

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

Richard Bruton: I take it that the Deputy is referring to support for the creation of jobs in the retail sector in town centres. The 2013 Action Plan for Jobs includes a number of measures which will support the retail sector, including an initiative to introduce a single portal for business licence applications, a new scheme to help more businesses to trade on-line, and the integration of local business...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland is the statutory body charged with the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ireland and its regions. IDA Ireland has informed me that it currently supports 14 companies in Donegal which employ 2,228 people in software development, systems development and the medical technology industry. Donegal's industry base is transforming from the clothing and textile industry to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The system of industrial relations in Ireland is essentially voluntarist in nature with the terms and conditions of employment of workers being determined in the main by a process of voluntary negotiation and agreement without the direct intervention of the State. In general, Irish law does not try to impose a solution on parties to an industrial relations dispute, but rather is designed to...

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

Richard Bruton: In the Action Plan for Jobs, the Government has set an ambitious target of having 100,000 more people at work by 2016. When we launched the first in a series of annual Action Plans for Jobs in February 2012, I said that the transformation needed for our economy would not come through one big bang solution but through deliberate and determined action across all areas of Government and the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The new Section 41A of Industrial Relations Act 1946 (inserted by Section 11 of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2012) provides that reviews of each Joint Labour Committee (JLC) will be carried out by the Labour Court, as soon as practicable after the commencement of the Act, and at least once every 5 years thereafter. In this context, the Labour Court appointed Ms Janet Hughes to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transport Costs (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The primary issues raised in this question relating to transport costs and transport infrastructure would be more appropriately directed to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. The recently published Forfás report “Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2012” identifies a number of issues relating to transport costs in Ireland. Prices for transport related services...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The achievement of balanced regional growth is a core objective of Government. Promoting entrepreneurship, attracting inward investment and facilitating the key infrastructural needs of Irish enterprise across all regions is vital to ensuring a vigorous pipeline of new business leaders, new business ideas and entrepreneurial activity. The Action Plan for Jobs is a whole of Government,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Funding (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136 and 317 together. The total amount of funding available for Pre-Commercial Procurement topics that have featured in FP7 ICT between 2007, when FP7 commenced, and 2012 is €18 million. A further €32.5 million of available funding is projected for 2013. For the years 2007 to 2008 no budget was available, and during 2009-2010 €4 million...

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

Richard Bruton: Enterprise Ireland does not levy direct charges on clients and at all times endeavours to keep costs to a minimum. However, where a client company elects to participate in knowledge events or to commission specific research in the field EI will charge a contributory fee. The fact that such activities are subsidised by Enterprise Ireland renders it a support to a business rather than a...

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

Richard Bruton: In the Action Plan for Jobs, the Government has set an ambitious target of having 100,000 more people at work by 2016. As I have pointed out previously to the House, achieving this target requires a transformational change to our economy. This Government, when it came into office, was starting from a position where more than 250,000 private sector jobs had been lost in the previous three...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Travel (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: As part of the Governments Ministerial-led St Patrick’s Day “Promote Ireland” programme, I undertook a 4-day, 4-city trade, investment and tourism mission to Germany. Germany is Europe’s largest economy and one of Ireland’s top-4 trading partners. In 2012 Irish goods exports to Germany, at over €7.5billion, were up 20% on 2011. Germany is also the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Appeals Tribunal (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The Employment Appeals Tribunal is independent in the exercise of its quasi-judicial function and I have no direct involvement in its day to day operations. The Employment Appeals Tribunal has seen a significant increase in its caseload in recent years, as it is one of the front-line services directly impacted upon by the economic downturn. The largest increase in claims has been in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I have been informed by NERA that the complainant is a proprietary director of the company against whom he has made the complaint. This information is based on information sourced from the Company Registration Office records. NERA has been attempting, therefore, to establish the status of the complainant’s engagement with the company named in the details supplied as this will have a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: The responsibility for the administration of Redundancy Payments is no longer within the remit of my Department and has instead transferred to the Dept. of Social Protection. I have been informed by that Department that its records indicate your constituent's full statutory entitlement to a redundancy payment has been met by his former employer. If this is not the case then direct contact...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: I am informed that only one of the State enterprise agencies, under the aegis of my Department, has supported the company. In this regard, I understand from Enterprise Ireland that they made payments to Wicklow Enterprise Park Ltd in 2011 of €110,627 and €25,000 in 2012. The support in 2011 was a Community Enterprise Centre Capital Grant and in 2012 the funding was a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector (23 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: This matter is a commercial decision for the company in question and it would not be appropriate for me to become involved in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Statistics (23 Apr 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 level of employment, job losses and the number of new jobs created in IDA and Enterprise Ireland client companies in each year from 2008 to 2012 are set out in the tabular statements. I am delighted to say that 2012 was a particularly...