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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.

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

Simon Coveney: My Department and its Offices have not facilitated in-person or remote briefings on any issues by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Hope and Courage Collective from 2020 to date. In respect of the Agencies that come within my remit, they are statutorily independent in their functions, and this is an operational matter for them. However, I have asked the Agencies to respond to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The insurance industry does have a responsibility to work with businesses post flooding and not to simply write off parts of the country because we have a flooding event. The Government will play its part in humanitarian support, which is effectively what this is. The Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation implementing humanitarian supports for businesses. It is not the alternative to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Regional Development (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: She is pretty tough when she is in the Chair.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: On 24 October, the Government activated the emergency business flooding humanitarian schemes that provide enhanced support of up to €100,000 to business, community, voluntary and sporting bodies that have been impacted by severe flooding events caused by recent storms. The current schemes now cover counties Galway, Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Louth, Wexford and Kilkenny. We want to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Ukraine War (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I can confirm that officials from my Department are still investigating the recovery of a number of items, ostensibly of Irish origin, from Ukraine. The investigations are still ongoing and are complex in nature. The components in question are in circulation in many jurisdictions and may have been resold a number of times before being acquired by bad actors. This has required multiple...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Ukraine War (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I cannot give an exact end date on this. I will, of course, inform the House as soon as I can. All I can say is that we are taking it really seriously but that if one follows the supply chain network in terms of how a component part gets into a missile in a part of the world and then gets subsequently exported to another part of the world where there may have been multiple different actors...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It is 37 GW-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: -----by 2050 and it will be well over €100 billion of capital investment. The Deputy is correct that if it were 30 GW it would be about €80 billion. It costs about €3 billion per gigawatt to develop offshore. It depends on whether it is fixed or floating but that is the rough guidance figure. It is enormous expenditure and it has the potential to employ tens of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: There are a lot of questions there. Enterprise Ireland has a stable of about 4,500 companies. The Deputy is right that most of them are focused on export markets and global growth, and that is Enterprise Ireland's remit. We have seen and are seeing Enterprise Ireland develop capacity to support and service this sector. We have a unit within Enterprise Ireland that is focused on this group...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I would say officially that everything is hunky-dory between the different Departments. In this case the relationships are good. There are a number of different Departments, including the Department of housing and planning, which has effectively designed and produced the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, MARA, and An Bord Pleanála, which will soon be a planning commission, has played...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: IDA Ireland’s strategy of diversifying its market reach involves broadening the geographic profile of investors. This is supported by the agency’s pathfinder model, which it has used across several territories over the past number of years and involves engaging in market business development consultants on a part-time basis in markets with business potential and in which IDA...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I was a foreign Minister once but I am not one at the moment. I am an enterprise Minister now. Many of the issues the Deputy has raised are foreign policy issues on which I have very strong views. However, we are dealing with questions on enterprise. The Deputy’s comments are very one-sided in many ways. As he knows, I have been a very strong voice at a European level in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: As the Deputy will know, I have discussed many of these options many times. We have taken advice from the Attorney General about what we can and cannot do. We have received very clear answers from three Attorneys General in a row in relation to the occupied territories Bill. I repeat that Ireland could decide to do things that will gain the support of this House but the question we need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My final point is that it is not true to say that fewer people are employed in tech now than there were at the start of the year. The CSO would suggest that there are more.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: That does not mean that we have not had significant job losses in certain companies. That is important to recognise.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I was and am very concerned about any job losses, which is why, at short notice at the start of the year, I went to the US to meet as many key decision-makers in some of the big tech companies as I could to really understand their mindset about what was happening. The answer we got was that the decisions they were making had very little to do with Ireland. In fact, it was nothing to do with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It is spending a fortune on building-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: We are seeing-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (23 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: All right.