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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It will happen in the next few days.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: There were lots of questions there and I will try to answer them before the Deputy has to leave. Starting with the European Space Agency, we have many fascinating projects under way in this area. I will record some of the companies benefiting from the ESA because I think many people do not realise that Ireland is becoming a much more significant player in the space technology area....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Lots of questions from someone who understands pretty well how this Department works. The loan schemes have been a response to market failure at different times. We have looked at the State de-risking lending in targeted areas, whether that is linked to business supply chains that have been impacted by the war in Ukraine or whether it was rebuilding businesses post Covid and so on....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I accept that. What we are doing this year is a very general measure. It is a bit like what we are doing for households on energy costs. Everyone is getting something. We are effectively acknowledging the concerns within business around the cost of doing business going up, and we are giving a quarter of a billion euro back to about 140,000 small businesses. That is effectively what we...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I thank Deputy O'Connor. I know Youghal pretty well. I was there a few weeks ago for the launch of the SIRO network. I was standing outside Deputy O'Connor's office from what I can remember. Youghal needs to be a target for us in terms of enterprise development and opportunity growth. It is a super place to live but we need more employment opportunities there. Many people living in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I have heard the calls and they are not only from Midleton. There is a business in Galway too that has had significant damage that goes way beyond €100,000. I would have to go back to Cabinet to change those thresholds. For now, we are going to stick with a scheme that I think is working well. Getting €100,000 to businesses quickly is what we are trying to do here. We need...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I am told that systems have been delayed. We look at upgrading our IT systems all the time.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Upgrading IT systems is often expensive. I suspect the tender has been delayed or it will be done next year rather than this year. I will come back to the Cathaoirleach in writing to give him detail of that.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: This is an exciting project. It is effectively Ireland's first satellite going into space. It has been built by a whole series of contributors to the project. I understand it is being led by UCD. Certainly, it is very proud of its contribution to the project. I got a briefing about it when I was in UCD about a month ago. This is about testing a whole series of technologies and materials...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department and its Offices paid a total of €66,672in prompt payment interest and compensation to suppliers for the years 2016 up to 24 November 2023 ( see attached table ). The table does not include payments by the Department's Agencies. The table includes details of the top five suppliers who received the largest total in prompt payment interest and compensation in each year...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Further to my response to Parliamentary Question No.44 of 2023, I noted that the specific steps required for triggering human rights clauses have to be considered with regard to the specific terms of each agreement concerned. Therefore, there is no formal mechanism to direct the Commission, who acts on behalf of Member States, to review or trigger human rights clauses in Free Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Caiteachas Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I understand that Plean Fáis, Conradh na Gaeilge's Irish Language and Gaeltacht Investment Plan, was published on the 29th September. I note that the actions in the Plan that relate to entrepreneurship supports and employment creation are proposed for delivery by Údarás na Gaeltachta, which is the statutory agency for the economic, linguistic and cultural development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (29 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My colleague, Minister Eamon Ryan T.D., Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications has responsibility for the NDRC accelerator and NDRC pre-accelerator and has provided the information below. NDRC is one of the State’s supports for early-stage enterprises operating in the pre-seed investment funding gap between entrepreneurs/researchers and the commercial investment sector...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I have only two minutes so I will briefly try to address a number of matters. Like everyone else, our thoughts are with a young five-year-old girl and her family. She remains in a critical but stable condition. She and others were the victims of a vicious assault last Thursday. I commend the members of the Garda who are standing on the streets across Dublin tonight. In many cases,...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Instead, we should be responding with firmness, unity and honesty in terms of what we need to do now to learn lessons from last Thursday evening.

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy let us down.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department has no direct remit dedicated to dealing with integration policy. However, The table below sets out the details of staff of my Department, by grade, who are assigned on a full-time basis to provide support to the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in order for that Department to fulfil its areas of responsibility in dealing with integration. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Freedom of Information (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: In 2022, my Department received a total of 313 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests of which 37 were refused. To date in 2023 the Department has received 258 FOI requests of which 31 have been refused. My Department is committed to being transparent and providing ease of access to information and records where possible. Where practicable, my officials will endeavour to redact a version...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Rights (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department is the National Competent Authority with responsibility for Export Controls, including Controls on defence-related exports and exports of Dual-Use goods. The Department operates Export Controls to the highest standards, in accordance with EU law and international best practice. My Department administers Controls on the export of Dual-use items in accordance with Regulation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (28 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Between the years 2016 and 2023 my Department advertised with RTE once. This was in 2021 at a cost of €63,250 as part of a wider multi-platform campaign to promote the National Remote Work Strategy: Making Remote Work.