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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Employers can get support to employ people with disabilities, and rightly so. It might be useful to explore other ways existing employers can employ people using that fund that is sitting there. Could the Minister tell us a bit more about the disruptive technologies innovation fund? It is the seventh call. I think it is closing on 30 April. How much is in the fund now? Typically, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Will the Minister let us know about Balance for Better Business? I was involved in that in a different role a number of years ago. It works to urge and support gender balance at directorship level in State and private companies. I understand that has now moved from the Department of Justice to the Department of enterprise. I am interested to know how it is going and what progress is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I recognise the work and support the Department gave in the context of the intra-company transfer employment permit situation, whereby spouses are now able to work. The decision was made by the Department of Justice eventually but I know the Department of enterprise was very supportive of it, and I mark that now. It means that spouses and partners of people who transfer here from abroad...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Finally, I have a local question related to my own area. A site in Ballyadam is owned by the IDA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: It is a site in Ballyadam, near Carrigtwohill. It has been there for 12 years, completely idle. Are there any plans to make use of that site? It has all services. It is completely serviced with water, power, wastewater, roads, rail – you name it. It is just sitting there, not being used. I just want to draw the Minister's attention to the site if he is not aware of it. He might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I wish to raise two issues. The Minister spoke about the global footprint and the great work going on with Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland and so on, which is laudable and is world-class. Recently I have been involved with Canada. Ireland has a presence in the east and the west but not in the centre. Has the Department looked at a presence for IDA Ireland in Calgary, for example, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I am aware of the ISIF application and other funding that might be possible, but my understanding is it is going very slowly. If it does not happen soon, the planning permission will run out, and there is a concern planning permission might be very difficult to acquire again. It would have to start the whole process again, as I understand. This is really urgent. If it is not sorted by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: It is imminent, in the coming months. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Has the Department looked at and formulated a view on the proposal to establish a border control post in Cork? I am told at the moment there are 2,000 containers that cannot be unloaded in Cork due to the restriction of not having a border control post there. I am told some containers are going over to Southampton, England. The contents are then taken by truck to the west coast of Britain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: The Department of agriculture is also a part of this as a lot of foodstuffs are impacted as well, imports in particular. Will the Minister send us a note with his Department's views on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Before I leave that, is there an indicative timetable as to when a referendum might be held? I know there is a general election on the way. As I said, Denmark faced all those barriers too and yet they managed to do it in 2014 and got it through with a good majority. My fear is that this will drift and drift without a definitive stance being taken.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her response which throws up a number of interesting points and questions. For instance, she stated that "the role of the Department is to ensure that all schools in the area can, between them, cater to school place requirements in that area". I am sure the Minister of State will agree with me that the wishes of parents must also be taken into account. If...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter. I also thank the Minister of State for being here. I had a bit of déjà vu recently when I visited the old technical school in Fermoy, which was built in 1931. I am sure the Minister of State knows about it as she has never been too far away from it. I started teaching there about 46 years ago when I was very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Will the Tánaiste comment on reports about his plans to purchase a multi-role vessel, perhaps with helicopter capability, to replace the LÉ Eithne? Would he agree with me that it would be very important to have a vessel that can actually carry helicopters, especially in light of what happened recently in Cork where a large shipment of drugs was captured using a land-based...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Will the Minister comment on whether if he feels it is important that such a vessel could carry helicopters? What other tasks would he envisage such a vessel performing? We have seen reports in the past of hospital ships, ships that can carry out rescue missions such as those we have had in the Mediterranean in the past, and ships that can carry cargo and so on. Will he give us an outline...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: 66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the current situation with regard to the Naval Service’s fleet of ships; his plans to further upgrade the fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28216/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: Will the Minister outline the current situation with regard to the Naval Service’s fleet of ships, plans to upgrade, how many ships are seaworthy and so on?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I welcome the Tánaiste and thank him for his statement. I join him in recognising the work being carried out abroad by Defence Forces personnel. In the context of UNIFIL, as the Tánaiste stated, tensions have heightened recently. There was a meeting yesterday with humanitarian agencies in respect of the civilian communities out there. UNIFIL was involved in that as well. The...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: The Tánaiste indicated earlier that we are prepared to evacuate our troops if we have to in the event of serious hostilities breaking out. We hope that does not happen. If hostilities break out between Hezbollah and Israel, it would be a catastrophe. I understand that Hezbollah is more powerful than Hamas. Will the Tánaiste comment on the Syrian refugees in Lebanon? Have we...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I was asking about Syria. It was interesting to hear the Tánaiste comment on the pressures on Lebanon, the number of Syrian refugees there and the fact that they cannot go back. This leads me to my next question. We are talking about the Golan Heights, the situation in Syria and how that is affecting the UN's presence in Lebanon.