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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and our guests. Will I ask all of my questions together?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I have a number of questions which the Minister can answer and then I will go back and forth if I need to. My first question is on subhead A14 and the future growth loan scheme. The Government is due to carry out a review of the Brexit loan scheme. As the future growth loan scheme operates alongside this, are there plans to review the future growth loan scheme? According to figures I...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: Okay.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The figure the Minister mentioned has been sanctioned, not drawn down. There is a difference.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I am quite clear about the differences between sanctioning and drawing down, and between being overdrawn and not. Anyone who works an overdraft will know the difference between being availing of it and not.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: So have I. The Minister stated that €116 million has been sanctioned for the scheme. At the beginning of November, approximately €45 million had been drawn down. Has she an up-to-date figure for what has been drawn down?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: A total of €3 million remains to be delivered under the cycle 5 programme.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: Is there a timeframe for a future programme or will the Minister of State say only that it is in gestation?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I thank the Minister of State for his honesty. I take it that the IDA Ireland savings will not have an effect on any potential foreign investment, although I am sure the Minister will clarify that. Has her Department ever considered introducing multi-annual budgets for the IDA as opposed to an annual budget? It would alleviate the need to divert money from its budget at the end of year...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I acknowledge that the IDA will publish its new plan in the new year and will outline what it wants to do. We all meet representatives of the agency in our constituencies and they often give the same reason for their inability to make important investments. I refer, for example, to Mullingar, where an IDA park lies almost empty. If the €2.1 million was invested there for an advanced...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: Is it accurate to say the Health and Safety Authority is not at its full complement of staff?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: How many posts remain vacant?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: What is the full complement of staff?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: I would appreciate it if the Minister could revert to me on that.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The Minister is acknowledging that she will make changes and increase the CCPC's powers in due course.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: It is not me saying it has inadequate powers but the commission's own staff when it appeared before this Oireachtas committee.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The Minister said the commission will get any resources it requires to complete the forensic study of the insurance industry. Has it indicated a timeframe on reporting on the completed study?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2019) Robert Troy: The commission has not given any timeframe. The Minister can appreciate that this matter is crippling many small businesses.
- OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute and thank my colleague, Deputy Michael Moynihan, who pushed it at the Business Committee to ensure the OECD report would be debated here. I welcome the Minister’s statement that she is going to start listening to SMEs. She acknowledged that she felt they have not been listened to and said she will extend the red carpet to them. It is worthy...
- OECD Report on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in Ireland: Statements (10 Dec 2019)
Robert Troy: We can go back to the Official Report of the Dáil. The Minister said months. This Government may not have months to publish this. It is coming belatedly, after nine years in government and failure to produce a comprehensive strategy. Many pre-budget submissions by ISME and SFA have called for reform of our research and development regime. The OECD report points out that between 2011...