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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes have paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. Both schemes are now closed. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Ireland’s enterprise policy, as set out in the Government’s White Paper on Enterprise and is a key focus of the work of my Department and our Agencies. In that regard, under its new strategy, Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation 2025-2029, IDA Ireland is targeting over half of all investments to regional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: The multiplier effect refers to the way that spending in one part of the economy can have a knock-on effect, contributing to activity in other parts of the economy. For the hospitality sector, this effect can be significant, as the sector tends to rely relatively more on local businesses and workers. Hospitality firms are significant local employers. As of Q4 2024, approximately 184,400...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Standards Authority of Ireland (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Peter Burke): The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) is an agency of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. In addition to its functions in legal metrology and standards, the NSAI also offers certification services for In Vitro Devices, under EU’s In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations (2017/746). Under the Regulations,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland has been working closely with Roche, since their decision to close the Clarecastle facility in 2015. IDA Ireland had actively marketed the site through its extensive overseas network to both existing and new investors as a going concern which unfortunately yielded no offers. Roche has commenced remediation works at the site which represents a significant investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 223 and 224 together. In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes have paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. Both schemes are now closed. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The need for collaboration across government when it comes to removing barriers for the participation of people with disabilities, including accessing freely chosen employment, is widely acknowledged. Officials from my department have been fully engaged with officials in both the Department of Children, Disability and Equality and the Department of Social Protection in the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I am fully committed to progressing work on this and I have already directed work to begin on the design of a voluntary Code of Practice with the aim of encouraging employers to hire people with disabilities. Some businesses and state agencies already have best practice procedures in place and I believe there is significant potential for the sharing of best practice procedures, approaches to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The Life Sciences sector is a cornerstone of Ireland’s economic success, accounting for over 80,000 jobs and over €100 billion in exports according to recent figures. It is also a key sector attracting foreign and indigenous investments in R&D and significant capital expenditure. Ireland has developed a cohesive and integrated Life Sciences cluster consisting of highly...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 and 117 together. In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024. There are no further payments to be made to businesses in Cavan or Monaghan, all approved eligible businesses have been paid the ICOB and Power Up grants. While both ICOB and Power Up are now closed, there may be a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Data on site visits is available on a county basis and I am advised by IDA that there were two IDA-facilitated site visits to County Laois in 2024. The IDA also highlighted to me that site visits are only one measure of a company’s interest in a particular location and may not necessarily be a true measure of the overall level of foreign direct investment (FDI) activity in a region or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Statutory Retirement Age (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Retirement arrangements for employees of individual companies is a contractual matter between employers and employees. There is currently no general statutory retirement age for employees in Irish legislation, apart from for certain public sector employees where statutory retirement ages may apply. A contract of employment often sets out a specific retirement age but this is a matter of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: While the operational aspects of the transfer of particular files and functions will be managed between my Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the coming period, in line with the established cross-government protocols, I am continuing to oversee the government’s handling of the EU-Mercosur Agreement. In this regard, I will be working closely with the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market. The regime is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages in the State, in order to develop and support enterprise for the benefit of our economy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357, 358 and 377 together. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the Power Up grant. If a business was not in those sectors they were not eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The ICOB and Power Up schemes closed to registrations in 2024. Following an extension to the deadline, the ICOB scheme closed on 29th May, 2024 and the Power Up grant closed on 22nd November, 2024 also following an extension to the deadline. In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wind Energy Generation (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department published Powering Prosperity – Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy in March 2024 to ensure that Ireland captures the value of the supply chain to deliver an OWE sector of scale and maximises the economic impact of the future end-uses of this renewable energy. Powering Prosperity was developed as part of close ongoing collaboration between my Department and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (25 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Please see the attached file, setting out, in tabular form, a schedule of all external legal consultation that this Minister and his predecessor engaged in, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the general nature of the engagement; whether the external consultation resulted in a report and or recommendations; and the cost of each consultant and or company engaged. Please note that I did not...