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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: InterTradeIreland has 25 years’ experience supporting businesses in both Ireland and Northern Ireland by providing a range of programmes and initiatives, assisting businesses with securing funding, capacity building, research and exploring their innovation potential. The following programmes form part of InterTradeIreland's Innovation and Entrepreneurial supports and are designed to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024 to SMEs right across the country. In relation to County Offaly, 614 businesses registered for the Power Up grant with 593 businesses approved and paid, which had a total value of €2.4 million.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Ireland’s labour market has shown remarkable resilience given the challenges faced in recent years, including Brexit, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and global inflationary pressures. The Government continues to work on those elements within our control and our labour market performance has been nothing short of exceptional Ireland has a strong reputation as a stable country to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 37 and 43 together. As the operational aspects of the transfer of particular files and functions regarding trade policy will be managed between my Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the coming period, this matter is one that I am updated regularly on given the United States is our largest trading and investment partner. This...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Currently, apprentices are exempted from the right to receive the National Minimum Wage. When the National Minimum Wage was introduced in 2000, it was determined that apprentices would be excluded from the Act in recognition of the unique nature of such apprenticeships and the fact that a long-established practice for determining rates, which adequately protected apprentices, already existed....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Government is acutely aware of the significant challenges that the impacts of Storm Éowyn has caused for business owners over recent weeks. With regard the issue of potential schemes to support businesses with losses arising from Storm Éowyn, I would in the first instance encourage businesses to seek recourse through their insurance providers to cover losses incurred. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The Programme for Government includes the commitment that this Government will recognise the work of the independent Low Pay Commission, ensuring fair wages whilst also supporting the viability of small and medium-sized enterprises. The Government is committed to ensuring a balance between a fair and sustainable rate for low paid workers, and one that will not have significant negative...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The Government is committed to supporting free, fair and open trade. Our membership of the EU makes us part of a growing network of EU Free Trade Agreements, supporting more opportunity for exports and investment, helping support jobs and growth at home, maintaining strict EU standards on food safety, animal and plant health, and supporting better environmental and human rights standards...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail or beauty sector in order to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024 to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In relation to County Carlow, 550 businesses registered for the Power Up grant, 546 businesses were approved and paid the Grant, which amounted to a total of €2.2 million 877 businesses registered in County Kilkenny for the Power Up grant...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Workday established a presence in Ireland via acquisition in 2008 when it acquired Cape Clear, a Dublin-based software company. Employment has increased from the initial 25 employed in Cape Clear in 2008 to over 2,000 today, drawn from 67 different countries. The Dublin office has become Workday’s EMEA (Europe the Middle-East and Africa) HQ with enterprise technical support,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 63 together. IDA is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development which can deliver complementary efficiency and equity gains, with the overall impact of helping to advance national development. I launched the new IDA Ireland Strategy yesterday which will direct the focus of IDA Ireland over the coming 5-year period as it seeks...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024 to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme, and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In relation to County Kerry, 1,632 businesses registered for the Power Up grant, 1,581 businesses have been approved and paid a total of €6.3 million.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Government is acutely aware of the significant challenges that the impacts of Storm Éowyn has caused for business owners over recent weeks. Since 24 January, I have been closely monitoring the situation in relation to Storm Éowyn and its impacts on the business community through regular updates from the National Emergency Coordination Group and updates from Local Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In relation to Cork, and the Power Up grant, in Cork City, 1,815 businesses registered for the Power Up grant, with 1,773 being approved to the value of €7 million. In Cork County, 2,844 businesses registered for the Power Up grant and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Government is acutely aware of the significant challenges that the impacts of Storm Éowyn has caused for business owners over recent weeks. Since 24 January, I have been closely monitoring the situation in relation to Storm Éowyn and its impacts on the business community through regular updates from the National Emergency Coordination Group and updates from Local Enterprise...