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

Peter Burke: My Department has procured independent experts to undertake in-depth research and analysis to provide a detailed view of the economic and societal impacts arising from data centres in Ireland. This study will look to identify opportunities for Ireland to evolve our data centre landscape in a way that optimises future economic and societal returns, and will provide insights for guiding policy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: IDA currently employs 49 Sales and Marketing Executives across the globe, 31 of whom are male and 18 of whom are female.

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

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland has advised me that the former Abbvie factory in Rahoon, Galway was not owned by Abbvie but had been owned by a fund and has since been sold to a private owner. The building is not, therefore, available to IDA Ireland to market to potential investors. However, Regional Development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy and is a key focus of the work of my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Civil Service (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: As the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, my response to this question applies to procedures that take place and apply to civil servants working within my own Department, rather than across the broader Civil Service. Under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 all employers are obliged to provide reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of both employment candidates and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The forthcoming National Disability Strategy will include employment as an important consideration as one of its five key pillars. The strategy will contain a number of actions for my department, including engagement with employers and employer bodies to raise awareness and to foster positive attitudes towards the employment of people with disabilities. The Department of Social...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department and its Offices operates a devolved procurement function which is led at Principal Officer level. Each Business Unit and Office is responsible for the procurement of their own individual contracts with the support and advice from the Principal Officer in the Department who heads up the Procurement Co-ordination Unit. In respect of the Agencies of my Department the following is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department regularly facilitates informal Procurement Training through in-house programmes offered by its internal Learning and Career Development Unit and its Procurement Unit. Further public procurement training, though non-accredited, is readily accessible through the various programmes available to staff members through the Office of Government Procurement’s (OGP) Commercial...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department maintains a contracts register. It is based on Lotus Notes and we are currently examining options to upgrade it. Under our devolved procurement model, Business Units and the Offices of the Department are required to update the Register upon the signing of a contract and enter the specific details of the contract. The register is administered by my Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, €400 million in grant aid was successfully paid to SMEs right across the country in 2024 under the Increased Cost of Business scheme and the Power Up grant. Following the launch of Power Up, the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and local authorities became aware of an issue where businesses misclassified their business sector and were subsequently not...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reports (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I can confirm that my Department has not actively ‘unpublished’ any relevant documents, reports, strategies, and resources over the past 10 years, notwithstanding any temporary, technical matter that would impact on website access which is resolved as soon as possible. I am wholly committed to the open publication of government information. The referenced article mentions...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Civil Service (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: As outlined in my Department’s People Strategy, the Department is wholly committed to building a supportive and inclusive workplace. My Department is a JAM Card friendly organisation since July 2024 with over 80% of staff having completed the JAM Card e-training and remains an ongoing initiative. In June last year, my Department also launched its first ED&I Strategy, which...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I can confirm that my Department has not built or commissioned to be built any infrastructure projects and as such no such projects are currently running late on delivery or currently over budget.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The Competitiveness Summit will take place on Monday, 7th July. The Competitiveness Summit will be hosted by An Taoiseach, and as such, invitations are a matter for that Department. In September 2024, the Competitiveness Summit was attended by a number of Ministers, the Chair of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, along with representatives of the OECD, IDA Ireland,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: In response to international economic developments, and in line with a commitment in the Programme for Government, my Department is currently preparing the Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity. This plan will be brought to a Competitiveness Summit for consideration in July and will be finalised and published shortly thereafter. The Action Plan will reflect a whole-of-government...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: The Life-Sciences sector – which includes pharma, biopharma and medtech – remains a cornerstone of Ireland’s industrial success, driving significant exports, and attracting foreign and indigenous investments in research and development (R&D), capital expenditure and employment. It currently accounts for over 100,000 jobs and over €130 billion in exports. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Investments by IDA Ireland client companies consistently generate highly skilled jobs nationwide. IDA Ireland’s portfolio now comprises more than 1,800 clients across a diverse range of sectors in every county in Ireland. Employment levels within the FDI sector remain above 300,000 for the third consecutive year. The 2024 employment figure of 302,566 represented a slight increase...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Promotion (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: In the last 12 months, from June 2024 to May 2025, Fáilte Ireland has spent €493,207 (including VAT) on Google ads as part of its marketing activity to drive domestic tourism activity in Ireland across the year. This activity relates to PPC (Pay Per Click) and YouTube activity only. All YouTube activity ran on YouTube.com. Brand Safeguards: Through its media buying agency,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: Joint Labour Committees (JLCs) are independent in their functions and I have no role in relation to the negotiation of a proposal for an Employment Regulation Order (ERO). Under legislation, my role in the ERO process is clearly defined. As soon as practicable after receiving a copy of the proposals for an ERO from the Labour Court, where I am satisfied that Sections 42A and 42B of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Directives (19 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I am happy to provide the clarity. First, I agree with her on the harmonised approach to civil liability. That would be important. We want to be careful about member states having very different responses, which could present a very significant challenge. We have made our view on this known in the co-legislative process that is under way. There is a lot of territory to be covered in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Directives (19 Jun 2025)

Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy and appreciate her concern about this issue. We are happy to engage and work with her as the directive is amended through the omnibus measures. I am in favour of the thinking on in-scope companies. It is critical that a risk-based analysis be conducted, particularly regarding human rights, the environment and areas critical to the companies’ supply chains, and to...