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- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 18 together. In 2011, IDA client companies created more than 13,000 new jobs, up 20% on the previous year's level of 10,897, increasing the total number of those employed directly in companies supported by the agency to almost 146,000, representing a net increase of more than 6,000. The IDA has informed me that there are 12 IDA Ireland-supported client...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: I accept the Deputy's comments. For the reasons he has outlined, I have directed the IDA to give a particular priority to the region. It has suffered badly, and not only during the recession. During the good years, the growth in its industrial base did not match the growth in other parts of the country. I have also directed Enterprise Ireland to contact its portfolio of companies...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: This is active intervention. I have already directed the IDA to ensure that 50% of projects should be outside Dublin and Cork. Within that directive, we are placing a spotlight on the south east. While that also includes Waterford, one must consider a region's strengths and its hub and gateway locations and try to build on what exists. The IDA does not have the power to move jobs around...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: Immediate success can be had by IDA Ireland in respect of smaller companies. However, in the case of substantial job announcements, where the company in question is seeking a very deep labour pool, there is, of necessity, a certain restriction in terms of the regions that can offer a good fit. More recently IDA Ireland's focus has been less on the blue chip companies and more on emerging...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The role of Government is not to create jobs directly but to create the appropriate business environment by making the right policy decisions to help enterprise to grow, to create new jobs and to maintain existing jobs. In the wake of many years of unsustainable policies that produced anoversized construction sector, a property bubble, a collapse in the public finances, and years of...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The Deputy and his party continually want to pretend that the past never happened but the reality is that the economic collapse-----
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: -----that we have faced is the product of a number of years of bad policy, and during those years we lost 350,000 jobs under the previous Government's remit.
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The challenge for this Government is to pick up a very difficult environment and start to rebuild the economy.
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The truth of it is that it will take painstaking work. We have had to restructure the banks to put them in a position where they can once again lend to small businesses. As I said in my reply, we have had successes in the past 12 months, despite the Deputy's unwillingness to recognise them. For example, in the food sector we have had the best year ever with 14% growth in food exports. That...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: A plan was launched last year by the Taoiseach, as the Deputy may know, in respect of the potential for growth in the financial services sector. It is expected that the financial services sector has the capacity to create 10,000 additional jobs in the foreseeable future. Therefore, there is planning. Obviously, there are other parts of banking that we know about in light of the recent...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: Job creation is at the top of the Government's agenda. Since we came into office, this Government has been working to create the improved economic conditions which will support the maintenance of existing jobs and the creation of new ones. Our objective is to put the country back on the road to economic recovery and full employment. It is an unfortunate reality that companies, for a wide...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The reason for that is that we have agencies, such as Enterprise Ireland which specialises in the support of indigenous companies and IDA which specialises in the support of foreign owned companies who come to locate here. They have the competitive advantage within the State system of understanding the needs of those businesses. To suggest, as the Deputy is doing, that we create a new...
- Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The economy is undergoing a difficult transformation. Some sectors grew to a scale that is not sustainable. As the Deputy knows, the construction sector grew to unsustainable levels. The task of Government is to help companies that have a viable future to create that future, but we must also look at companies that are not able to survive in their present form but can be helped to establish...
- Trade Relations (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The full details of our trade balance are set out in the tables that follow this reply. Complete data for 2011 are not yet available. In summary, Ireland's trade balance with the UK improved from a deficit of â¬385 million in 2007 to a surplus of â¬3,009 million in 2010. The trade balance with BRIC countries improved from a deficit of â¬923 million in 2007 to a surplus of â¬2,714...
- Trade Relations (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: Yes.
- Trade Relations (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: Unfortunately, the way the Deputy asked the question means that a simple aggregate figure has not been provided. Our trade surplus with the UK increased from â¬2.8 billion to â¬3 billion from 2009 to 2010. Our trade surplus with the BRIC countries increased from â¬1.99 billion to â¬2.7 billion over the same period. Our trade surplus with the EU decreased slightly from â¬26.5 billion...
- Trade Relations (25 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: The Deputy is looking for figures that have not been compiled in the way he seeks. I remind him that we have authoritative data up to the end of October only.
- Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (24 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: While summary offences under the Competition Act 2002 may be tried in the District Court, section 11 of that Act provides that indictable offences are to be tried in the Central Criminal Court which is the name given to the High Court when it is exercising its criminal jurisdiction.
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (24 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: One of the targets in IDA Ireland's strategy document 'Horizon 2020' is the creation of 62,000 direct new jobs with 105,000 total jobs impact in Ireland over the period 2010-2014, with 50% of these investments to be based in locations outside of Dublin and Cork. Central to IDA's strategy is to build on existing regional strengths to ensure Ireland's economic development, while optimising...
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (24 Jan 2012)
Richard Bruton: I am satisfied that the current measures to deal with non-compliance of labour laws are adequate and I have no plans at the moment to introduce any additional measures to deal with compliance in the construction sector. The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) carries out inspections in this area, on a risk management basis, on receipt of a complaint or on a routine random basis....