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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that General Employment Permit renewal applications for the persons concerned (details supplied) were received on 17th September 2021 and 20th September 2021. On 9th March 2022 a request for additional information was forwarded to both the applicant and their authorised agent to provide a copy of required documentation. While some of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a standard General Employment Permit application for the person concerned (details supplied) was received on 2ndMarch 2022. Applications for employment permits are dealt with in date order. The Employment Permits Section of my Department are currently processing standard new General Employment Permit applications received on 1...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Damien English: I would encourage any person looking to start, expand or pivot their business to first contact their Local Enterprise Office. The Local Enterprise Offices act as a ‘first stop shop’ providing a signposting service to all available Government business supports. The Local Enterprise Offices can offer direct grant aid to microenterprises (10 employees or fewer) in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Mar 2022)

Damien English: Universal and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines, diagnostics and treatments is crucial in the global fight against COVID-19. International Trade is a competence of the EU under the Treaties and in exercising that competence, the European Commission engages fully with the Member States, including Ireland, through a variety of Committees and Working Parties/Groups,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (29 Mar 2022)

Damien English: As a result of a settlement agreement reached in December 2021, the Security ERO as approved was quashed and the draft proposals remitted back to the Labour Court. A Division of the Labour Court decided on the 7 February 2022 to direct the holding of a fresh hearing involving all interested parties desiring to be heard. This hearing took place in March. If the Court decides to adopt the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Mar 2022)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 166 together. I would like to firstly assure inform the Deputy that an EU citizen can work in Ireland without requiring an employment permit to do so. This is also the case for citizens of the European Economic Area (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), and Switzerland. The employment permits system in Ireland is designed to facilitate the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (24 Mar 2022)

Damien English: Similar to other adjudicative bodies, the impact of Covid 19, and the occasioned restrictions on in-person hearings, has disrupted the scheduling of complaints submitted to the WRC quite significantly. In April 2020, the WRC initiated a comprehensive public stakeholder consultation process to identify how best to dispose of complaints in the absence of a facility for in-person hearings...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Debt Collection (24 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The Construction Contracts Act, 2013 applies to certain construction contracts entered into after 25 July 2016. The Act defines the term 'construction contract' for the purposes of the legislation and some contracts are exempt from the legislation including if the value of the contract is not more than €10,000. The Act provides, inter alia, important statutory protections for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (24 Mar 2022)

Damien English: Universal and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines, diagnostics and treatments is crucial in the global fight against COVID-19. International Trade is a competence of the EU under the Treaties and in exercising that competence, the European Commission engages fully with the Member States, including Ireland, through a variety of Committees and Working Parties/Groups,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (24 Mar 2022)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation continues to be a key policy priority of mine and this Government. Throughout 2021, my Department has overseen the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024, including for the South-West, which covers Counties Cork and Kerry. The South-West Regional Enterprise Plan Steering Committee is chaired by Patricia...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Fuel Prices (23 Mar 2022)

Damien English: My colleague, Minister Eamon Ryan TD., Minister for Transport has responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally, and for the allocation of associated funding to the relevant transport operators. Licensed bus...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Fuel Prices (23 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The current spike in energy prices arises from the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with current international tensions and supply constraint issues. The causes of these price pressures are not within our control. This is being witnessed across the European Union as well as many other regions. The recent crisis in Ukraine has had a further dramatic impact on fuel...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The employment permits system is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages, in circumstances where there are no suitably qualified Irish/EEA nationals available to undertake the work and that the shortage is a genuine one.  The system is managed through the use of lists designating highly skilled and ineligible...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The Government has agreed to have a once-off public holiday on Friday 18thMarch 2022 in recognition of the efforts of the general public and Ireland’s frontline workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and in remembrance of people who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 pandemic. From next year there will be a new permanent public holiday established in celebration of Imbolc/St....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: At the outset, I would point out that the funding of any State funded organisation is a matter for the Minister with policy responsibility for the area in question. Regarding enforcement of recommendations from the Workplace Relations Commission; it is well established that the system of industrial relations in Ireland is essentially voluntary in nature. A complaint may be submitted for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The factory in Carrickmacross was officially opened in November 2019 when the fit out of the facility was completed.  As a proposed manufacturer of infant formula supplying the Chinese market, the company is required to have their facility fully audited and approved for operations prior to the commencement of any production. As the Deputy may be aware, this process includes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: In Ireland, there is a robust suite of employment protections in place.  I wish to confirm to the Deputy that migrant workers benefit from the same statutory employment protections as their Irish and EEA resident counterparts. Along with the Government, our State Agencies, Trade Unions and employer representative organisations are committed to ensuring that every Ukrainian person who...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ukraine War (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: As part of the response to the displacement of persons in Ukraine, temporary protection has been granted to Ukrainian citizens in accordance with Section 60 of the International Protection Act, the Temporary Protection Directive (2001/55/EC) and Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/382 of 4 March 2022. The implementing decision applies from 24 February to those who have fled Ukraine as a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 111 and 112 together. Further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 28 September 2021; the European Commission raised a query on foot of a complaint it had received alleging non-conformity of Irish legislation with Directive 2009/38/EC on European Works Councils. My Department has replied to the queries raised. However, as the process is incomplete it is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (22 Mar 2022)

Damien English: The electricity and gas retail markets in Ireland operate within a European regulatory regime wherein electricity and gas markets are commercial, liberalised and competitive. Responsibility for the regulation of the electricity and gas markets is a matter for the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU). The most immediate factor affecting electricity prices in Ireland is high...