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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Correspondence (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to treating all our customers equally and to delivering the highest quality of customer service and has both a Customer Charter and Customer Service Action Plan in place. The Charter and Action Plan are aligned to the wider Public Service as part of the work of Our Public Service 2020, which is the framework for the development and innovation in Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to the promotion of accessibility and universal design principles and Action 15 of my Departments ICT Strategy 2020-2025 reaffirms this commitment. My Department aims to achieve AA standard under WCAG 2.1 guidelines when developing websites or online systems. As part of this commitment, it has begun the process of migrating website content to gov.ie. A review of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is committed to inclusion, with equality of opportunity for all, regardless of disability, gender, civil or family status, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, race or membership of the Traveller Community. In 2018 my Department established a Disability Consultative Committee (DCC), in line with the Government’s ‘National Disability Inclusion Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The financial assistance which the Government is providing nationally to businesses and workers affected by the pandemic is unprecedented. The Economic Recovery Plan is a €3.5 billion stimulus to fuel the economy and help businesses to recover and rebuild. Across 2020 and 2021, €38 billion was provided to help our people and businesses cope with the pandemic. There will be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Grant Payments (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: My Department’s Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF), is a competitive Fund that has been introduced to co-finance the development and implementation of collaborative and innovative enterprise projects that can make a significant impact on enterprise development in the regions so as to help sustain and add to employment at county, regional and national level. There have...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (14 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, commonly known as CETA, has provisionally applied since 21st September 2017, meaning a great many of the benefits of this Agreement are already in place. Provisional application is a standard mechanism provided for in the EU’s Free Trade Agreements. This means that those areas where the EU has full competence may be applied...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reviews (13 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: A Social Impact Assessment framework was developed in 2016 by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to examine the impact of budgetary policy decisions on public service users. My Department has not completed any social impact assessments under this framework during the period in question.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Details of legal cases brought against my Department in the years in question are set out in the table. In addition to those set out in the table, two further legal cases have been brought by staff members against the Department via the Courts Service in the past five years and to date in 2021. These cases are ongoing. ">Table

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Correspondence (13 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I can confirm that I received the correspondence referred to and that a reply has issued to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (8 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Government recognises that both the travel industry, and businesses connected with it like the one to which the deputy refers, have been very badly effected by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. As you know, the Government has put in place a comprehensive package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic, including the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), the Pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (6 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The framework contract for banking services negotiated by the Office of Government Procurement specifically provides that all accounts linked to the Paymaster General cash pool are not subject to negative credit interest. Accordingly, as a client of the framework contract the Department’s own bank accounts are, therefore, not subject to negative credit interest. For operational...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (6 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Information on the number of IDA client companies which are Japanese is available in the 2020 Annual Employment Survey. According to the 2020 Employment Survey, there are 43 Japanese Operations in Ireland employing 5,634 people.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Freedom of Information (6 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 to 101, inclusive, together. In accordance with Section 8 of the FOI Act (Publication of information about FOI bodies), the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment publishes its FOI disclosure log on its website. This disclosure log Details of FOI requests received from April 2016 onwards and was most recently updated on 24 June 2021. Copies of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Functions (6 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) is the independent, non-statutory body that advises the Government on projected skills requirements across the Irish economy and makes recommendations on how existing education and training systems and delivery mechanisms, as well as other sources of skills supply, can be enhanced. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, as well as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (6 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: Manufacturing is a central pillar of our economy employing over 235,013 people with 85% of that employment outside Dublin. Over the last decade the manufacturing sector has been undergoing a radical transformation through the adoption of a range of digital technology platforms, collectively referred to as Industry 4.0. This includes robotics, additive manufacturing, cyber security, artificial...