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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) were established in April 2014 as the “First Stop Shop” support service for micro and small businesses in each Local Authority area. Their aim is to promote entrepreneurship, foster business start-ups and develop existing micro and small businesses to drive job creation and to provide accessible high quality supports for their clients’...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The category of employment in the scenario cited by the Deputy is one which is ineligible for an employment permit and thus one in respect of which an Employment Permit would not be issued.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Grant Payments (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Enterprise Ireland announced, on 1 June, the applicants that were allocated funding for their proposals under the Community Enterprise Initiative. I am pleased to say that the organization in question was successful in applying for grant assistance towards the cost of the development of a hub to encourage indigenous Irish companies to sell directly across the European Union.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Data (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My department collects a wide range of data across areas of business that come within its remit, including for example data on the issuing of employment permits, the registration of companies, public expenditure on research and innovation, export licensing statistics, the granting of patents and registration of trademarks, and on employment, sales, exports and expenditure by companies which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: A General Employment Permit in respect of the person named by the Deputy was issued by my Department on 10th November 2015. The Deputy’s query regarding the status of this person’s Immigration Visa application is more appropriate for my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The relevant scheme applicable for the timber stakes will depend on which use the producer has in mind for the final product. If he intends manufacturing timber poles for overhead lines the EU Regulation on construction products applies, in which case it would be standard I.S. EN 14229:2010 – Structural Timber – Wood Poles for Overhead Lines. If the products are for roadside...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Waste Management Regulations (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The previous questions referred to by the Deputy concerned a claim that a company will now only accept payment of invoices for bin charges through an online billing system for electronic tags thereby putting persons without access to the Internet at a disadvantage. The general consumer protection legislation for which my Department has responsibility does not contain provisions on the form to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission which is statutorily independent in the exercise of its enforcement function has advised me that the matter referred to in the Deputy’s question is under examination along with a number of other consumer issues which have arisen as a result of the introduction of a pay by weight charging structure for household waste. The Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Correspondence (8 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In the period 1 January 2015 to 30 April 2016, there were 428 representations listed as being from Members of the Oireachtas logged on the representations database of my Department. This figure does not include any follow up correspondence which may have arisen on these representations. Out of the 428 representations referred to above, there were nine that had yet to be replied to...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the important issue of delivering sustainable full employment and getting people back to work. A Programme for a Partnership Government is ambitious and it is our ambition to help to create 200,000 additional jobs by 2020, including 135,000 jobs outside Dublin. We also want to reduce the unemployment rate to 6% and our target this year is to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Data (2 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Since 2015 IDA Ireland has been working towards targets set out in their strategy “Winning - Foreign Direct Investment 2015-2019”. For the first time, under this strategy, ambitious investment targets have been set on a regional basis whereby the Agency aims to increase the level of investment by between 30% to 40% in each region. The Government’s commitment to...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Yes.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Give Deputy Michael Healy-Rae a chance.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Responsibilities (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Government recently appointed two Ministers of State to my Department. John Halligan T.D. serves in my Department as Minister of State with special responsibility for Training and Skills. Pat Breen T.D. serves as Minister of State with special responsibility for Enterprise and Small Business. Research and development, science and innovation are important priority areas for my...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 219 to 222, inclusive, together. The recent economic crisis hit the South East’s job numbers badly with the loss of 37,800 jobs from Q1 2007 to Q1 2012. However, through the focused collaborative approach and a range of reforms delivered in the region over the recent years, the unemployment rate has fallen from a peak of 20.1 per cent in Q1 2012 to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Intellectual Property Management (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: An independent Copyright Review Committee was established by the then Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in May 2011 to examine the Irish copyright framework from the perspective of removing any obstacles to developing and growing innovation. The Report of the Copyright Review Committee entitled “Modernising Copyright” was published in October 2013. In its Report,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Targets (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Ireland’s return to economic growth has demonstrated our ability, through concerted efforts across Government to focus actions on those areas that help to create jobs. We have made substantial progress since the Action Plan for Jobs process was first introduced in 2012. We can point to the considerable strides made in reducing the unemployment rate from 15.1% at the start of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Improving Ireland’s competitiveness position is a key economic priority for Government. As set out in 'A Programme for a Partnership Government', our objective is to protect our national competitiveness from unsustainable cost growth and to deliver a job-fit business environment which ranks in the top tier globally. Core inflation (consumer prices excluding food and energy) has...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The independence of the Low Pay Commission is firmly established in the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015 (the Act). The Commission can only operate in accordance with that statutory remit and make recommendations to the Minister in accordance with the criteria that are clearly and explicitly set out in the Act.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (1 Jun 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Authorised officers have sought information from a number of parties in relation to the collective redundancies that took place on 12 June 2015, pursuant to the appointment of a provisional liquidator to OCS Operations Limited. The work of the authorised officers relates to the application of the Protection of Employment Act 1977 (as amended) to the collective redundancies in question. That...