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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 117 and 146 together. Budget 2022 provided my Department with €17 million in additional discrete Covid Capital funding for next year. This together with unspent capital appropriations carried over from this year will mean that the Department will have almost €100 million available in 2022 for Covid measures. Whilst the detail of the programme by...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Work is well underway on the Sick Leave Bill. The draft Heads of Bill have been published and are available on my Department’s website. Our scheme compares very favourably with the UK scheme which uses a flat rate model rather than a percentage of the person's pay. In the UK , employees are entitled to a flat £96.35 per week for 28 weeks. Our scheme will provide workers...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government continues to support businesses through these challenging times and recognises the impact that the new measures will have on sectors such as hospitality, the arts and entertainment and the night-time economy sectors. With this in mind, on Friday we announced a package of financial interventions for the hospitality, events and entertainment sectors. The package includes: - a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government continues to support businesses through these challenging times and recognises the impact that the new measures will have on sectors such as hospitality, the arts and entertainment and the night-time economy sectors. With this in mind, on Friday we announced a package of financial interventions for the hospitality, events and entertainment sectors. The package includes: - a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government continues to support businesses through these challenging times and recognises the impact that the new measures will have on sectors such as hospitality, the arts and entertainment and the night-time economy sectors. With this in mind, on Friday we announced a package of financial interventions for the hospitality, events and entertainment sectors. The package includes: - a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Ministerial-led trade missions support the Government’s major drive towards market diversification and export growth. In mid November, I led a 5 day trade mission to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The trade mission was organised by Enterprise Ireland and saw participation by 60 Irish companies and organisations. This was the largest outbound trade mission from Ireland since the onset of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Border Region consists of the counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, and Monaghan. IDA Ireland supports 66 client companies, through the agency’s offices in Sligo and Cavan, in this region who collectively directly employ 8,651 people. The FDI performance in the region has been strong over the past five years with employment among IDA clients increasing by 18% as traditional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department published the National Remote Work Strategy on January 15th, 2021. The objective of the Strategy is to ensure that remote work is a permanent feature in the Irish workplace in a way that maximises economic, social and environmental benefits. My Department is leading the implementation of the Strategy’s 15 actions through an Interdepartmental Group. There has been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Budget 2022 sets out to help businesses get back on their feet as we reopen the economy and society. Funding allocated to this in Budget 2022 comes on top of the measures announced in the National Economic Recovery Plan, which sets out how the Government plans to get more people than ever working in long-term, future-proofed jobs. The Local Enterprise Offices will receive an additional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The programme for Government makes the commitment to "progress to a living wage over the lifetime of the Government". I have spoken before about how the pandemic has caused many of us to reconsider and re-evaluate what an essential worker is. We now understand that it is a much broader group of workers than people would have originally described, many of whom are on low pay and in the private...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 137 and 171 together. The period since March 2020 has been difficult for most businesses, and some sectors have been more severely impacted by public health restrictions and for a more prolonged period. Throughout the pandemic my Department and its enterprise agencies have engaged with and supported businesses within their remit, and in recent months there has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has worked to support businesses through these challenging times with a wide range of measures for firms of all sizes, which includes the wage subsidy scheme, business continuity and trading online grants, Restart Grants, COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme, the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme, the Future Growth Loan Scheme, commercial rates waivers and warehousing of tax...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Development Plan (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The recently published National Development Plan 2021 – 2030, sets out Departmental Capital allocations to 2025 and a total public investment of €165 billion over the period 2021-2030. In respect of my own Department, the NDP set out the following allocations; 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 €432m ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commissions of Investigation (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: There are no ongoing commissions of investigation in areas under the remit of my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The programme for Government makes the commitment to "progress to a living wage over the lifetime of the Government". I have spoken before about how the pandemic has caused many of us to reconsider and re-evaluate what an essential worker is. We now understand that it is a much broader group of workers than people would have originally described, many of whom are on low pay and in the private...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: In June 2021 IDA Ireland announced they had acquired two land banks in Co Louth. The land acquisitions, with a combined total of 149 acres, situated at the townland of Killally in Dundalk and Mell in Drogheda form part of IDA’s long term strategic plans to position Louth and the wider North East region to compete for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Both sets of lands have been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Gender Balance (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I launched Balance for Better Business in 2018 to ensure more women are represented on the boards and senior leadership teams of companies in Ireland. Since its establishment, considerable progress has been made. For all listed companies, as of 1 March 2021, 24% of directors are female, up from 14% in 2018. ISEQ20 companies had, by March 2021, exceeded the 2021 target of 27% by three...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has worked to support businesses through these challenging times with a wide range of measures for firms of all sizes, which includes the wage subsidy scheme, business continuity and trading online grants, Restart Grants, COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme, the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme, the Future Growth Loan Scheme, commercial rates waivers and warehousing of tax...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Accommodation for my Department and its Offices is provided by the Office of Public Works (OPW) in buildings which are either State owned or leased by the OPW on our behalf. Typically, the Department and its Offices are in shared accommodation, either with other Government Departments, public bodies and/or the private sector. The Department and its Offices are located in 11 locations...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government continues to support and engage with businesses through these challenging times and recognises the impact that the new measures will have on sectors, in particular the hospitality sector, the arts and entertainment and the night-time economy sectors. My Department has maintained ongoing engagement with sectoral representatives throughout the pandemic to ascertain the level...