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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: This is a strongly pro-jobs and pro-enterprise budget. The signal has gone out that Ireland is a fantastic place to do business, to scale up and to invest in. Our economy and workforce must continue to reap the benefits. The budget demonstrates the Government’s commitment to ensure that our economy delivers for our citizens and supports our people and businesses through investment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: As identified in Silicon Island-Ireland's National Semiconductor Strategy, Government is acutely aware of the strategic imperative to position Ireland as a competitive location for semiconductor fabrication facilities, with chips being critical to global supply chains and national economic resilience. Semiconductor fabrication plants, or “fabs”, require large sites due to their...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Offices (8 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Guidelines for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Service have been developed to actively empower public servants to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the delivery of services. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide practical information and resources for all public servants and Government officials on how to design, develop, deploy and maintain AI...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: My Department is committed to upholding the key aims of the Dignity at Work Policy, the Anti-Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Harassment policy for the Irish Civil Service. My Department is also committed to providing a work environment free from any form of bullying, harassment or sexual harassment. Such behaviour is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Any complaints or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Deputy's question concerns public procurement policy which is a matter for the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation. Public Procurement is governed by EU legislation and national rules/guidelines. EU Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement (goods, services and works) has been transposed into Irish Law in the form of corresponding...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key focus of our Programme for Government and is central to the work of my Department and our enterprise development agencies. In that regard, IDA Ireland partners with client companies and key stakeholders in all regions in pursuit of its objective to maximise regional opportunities. Under its current strategy, “Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business scheme was introduced in March 2024 and the Power Up grant was introduced in October 2024. Both grant schemes are now closed. As you are aware the second ICOB payment and the Power Up grant specifically targeted businesses in the retail, hospitality and beauty sectors. The Department used NACE codes to determine eligibility for those sectors. The NACE Codes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (7 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Thank you for the question to which there are a number of parts that I can address. On the issue of the National Minimum Wage, clearly one key input is the annual report of the Low Pay Commission. I received this report, which includes their recommendation for the 2026 National Minimum Wage, in July and this is under consideration. The Commission has an evidence-based approach to arriving at...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (2 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The National Standards Authority of Ireland (‘NSAI’) launched a public consultation for the draft I.S. 465 "Assessment, testing and categorisation of damaged buildings incorporating concrete blocks containing certain deleterious materials " on 31st March 2025. The consultation closed on 11th July 2025 and yielded in excess of 640 submissions. The NSAI’s Technical...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Ireland’s competitiveness is a key priority for Government and is supported through several coordinated structures and initiatives. In particular, the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (NCPC) plays a central role in advising Government on competitiveness and productivity issues. It is also designated as Ireland’s National Productivity Board. The Council reports...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The most recent data from the Central Statistics Office show that in the second quarter of 2025, over 1 million persons reported working from home at least some of the time. Within this, 555,500 persons said that they were “usually” working from home (i.e. more than half of the time). This is down from a peak number of 774,300 persons in 2021. There were 457,600 persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The most recent data from the Central Statistics Office show that in the second quarter of 2025, over 1 million persons reported working from home at least some of the time. Within this, 555,500 persons said that they were “usually” working from home (i.e. more than half of the time). This is down from a peak number of 774,300 persons in 2021. There were 457,600 persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The most recent data from the Central Statistics Office show that in the second quarter of 2025, over 1 million persons reported working from home at least some of the time. Within this, 555,500 persons said that they were “usually” working from home (i.e. more than half of the time). This is down from a peak number of 774,300 persons in 2021. There were 457,600 persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The most recent data from the Central Statistics Office show that in the second quarter of 2025, over 1 million persons reported working from home at least some of the time. Within this, 555,500 persons said that they were “usually” working from home (i.e. more than half of the time). This is down from a peak number of 774,300 persons in 2021. There were 457,600 persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The most recent data from the Central Statistics Office show that in the second quarter of 2025, over 1 million persons reported working from home at least some of the time. Within this, 555,500 persons said that they were “usually” working from home (i.e. more than half of the time). This is down from a peak number of 774,300 persons in 2021. There were 457,600 persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: The most recent data from the Central Statistics Office show that in the second quarter of 2025, over 1 million persons reported working from home at least some of the time. Within this, 555,500 persons said that they were “usually” working from home (i.e. more than half of the time). This is down from a peak number of 774,300 persons in 2021. There were 457,600 persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (1 Oct 2025)

Peter Burke: Ireland's National Remote Work Strategy - enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/making-remote-work.html - was published on January 15, 2021, by my Department with a goal to make remote working a permanent option in the Irish workforce. The strategy aims to strengthen employer and employee rights, invest in remote working infrastructure, and foster a more flexible work environment. My...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourism Promotion (30 Sep 2025)

Peter Burke: The Programme for Government provides that the Government will work with Fáilte Ireland to develop a balanced regional spread of tourism throughout the country, promoting and advancing the Hidden Heartlands, Ireland’s Ancient East, the Wild Atlantic Way and Dublin. This will involve continued Government investment in the tourism offering to attract overseas and domestic tourists....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2025)

Peter Burke: My Departments ICT Unit has informed me that the vast majority of its data is stored on private internal storage or in the OGCIO Private Government cloud. A small number of public facing online systems utilize Microsoft Dataverse and SharePoint storage which is included in the Departments Microsoft Dynamics365 and Microsoft 365 licences. My Department does not currently pay directly for any...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (30 Sep 2025)

Peter Burke: My Government colleagues and I recognise that the cost of doing business has been an issue for many firms in recent years, including those operating in the retail and hospitality sectors. This has arisen from both the wider inflationary trends – particularly, energy costs – as well as Government mandated changes in the form of improvements to working conditions across a range of...