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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 216 and 217 together. My Department has not been involved in any exercise, operation, training or research which included an Israeli state agency, any Israeli-based company or any company based elsewhere in the world which is owned or part-owned by any Israeli state agency or by any Israeli-based company. Furthermore, my Department does not hold any current...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commercial Rates (21 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Increased Cost of Business Grant (ICOB) was announced as part of Budget 2024 and will be targeted at Small and Medium sized businesses who operate from a rateable premises. Firms who do not have a rateable premises are not within the scope of this scheme. It is important that I be clear that this scheme is a once-off grant aid provision and not a commercial rates waiver. It will have...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Budget 2024 (21 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: In our Budget 2023 submission to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, my Department identified a core Existing Level of Service requirement of €970 million for next year, broken down as and between €386 in current expenditure funding as per the 2023 Revised Estimate allocation and €584 million in capital expenditure funding...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commercial Rates (16 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Increased Cost of Business Grant (ICOB) was announced as part of Budget 2024 and will be targeted at Small and Medium sized businesses who operate from a rateable premises. Firms who do not have a rateable premises are not within the scope of this scheme. The total allocation for this scheme is €250m. The grant is intended to aid firms but is not intended to directly compensate...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time". I welcome the opportunity to introduce the Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023. Essentially, the Bill will further enhance the protections of employees in a collective redundancy in a way that does not unduly impede enterprises in the conduct of their businesses. Before I go...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (15 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I welcome the ambition set out by the independent Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce in their Final Report. Government has committed to examining the Taskforce’s Report in detail. Among its recommendations, the Taskforce proposed that my Department coordinate the Government response to their action plan. My officials have been engaging across Government and State Agencies on this with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It is understandable that SMEs are concerned about the rising costs they are encountering at the moment. The impact of rising prices is not unique to Ireland, but an issue facing all major economies around the world as the effects of the pandemic unwind with the rapid resumption of economic activity, and more recently the geopolitical uncertainty following the invasion of Ukraine. Inflation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (15 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The tables below set out the current vacancies in the Workplace Relations Commission (Table 1) and the Labour Court (Table 2) broken down by number, role/grade and the estimated full-year cost of filling each post: Table 1: Labour Relations Commission Number of vacancies Role/Grade Estimated full-year cost of filling the post 1 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (15 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It is understandable that businesses are concerned about the impact of rising costs. The Government has provided significant support to business throughout the period of increasing overheads and has been proactive in limiting the fallout from higher rates of inflation in input costs and prices. However, it is not possible to insulate every business from the total impact of these costs....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (15 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Regional development is at the centre of IDA Ireland's strategy Driving Recovery & Sustainability 2021-2024 with IDA Ireland committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development with the overall impact of helping to advance national development. The timely provision of appropriate, cost-effective property and infrastructure solutions to meet the needs of multinational...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Promotion (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: An important element of the IDA’s strategy is to diversify its market reach by broadening the geographic profile of investment. ‘Pioneering Markets’, which is the name given to the new markets identified to extend IDA’s global footprint, was established within the Growth Markets Division in 2019. This approach has been supported by a number of in-market...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Patent Applications (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 163, 164 and 165 together. In June 2022, the Government reaffirmed its intention to participate in the Unitary Patent System and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and to hold a related referendum. An amendment to the Constitution is required before Ireland can ratify the Agreement on the UPC (UPCA), as the Agreement entails a transfer of jurisdiction from the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for administering controls on the export of Dual-use goods from Ireland, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council setting up a Union regime for the control of exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use items. Dual-use items are goods and technology, including software, that can be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Promotion (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The South East Region, which comprises counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford, has 86 IDA client companies, employing 15,520 people. There are currently 4 IDA client companies employing 1,515 people located in Carlow and 11 IDA client companies employing 884 people located in Kilkenny. The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) performance in the region has been consistent over the past...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Promotion (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: As the Deputy will be aware, IDA Ireland’s Regional Property Programme aims to ensure the supply of land, buildings and infrastructure in regional locations to meet the needs of current and prospective clients of the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Local Enterprise Offices and serves as a significant contribution to regional economic development and job creation. In this regard, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 173 together. The Increased Cost of Business Grant (ICOB) was a measure announced as part of Budget 2024 for small and medium sized businesses who operate from a rateable premises. It is intended to be paid at a rate of up to half the enterprise’s commercial rates bill in 2023, subject to a prescribed limit. The grant is intended to aid firms...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: It is understandable that businesses are concerned about the rising costs they are encountering at the moment. The impact of rising prices is not unique to Ireland, but an issue facing all major economies around the world as the effects of the pandemic unwind with the rapid resumption of economic activity, and more recently the geopolitical uncertainty following the invasion of Ukraine....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Trafficking (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: As part of its remit, the Inspectorate Division of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is authorised to carry out inspections of employer records with a view to determining compliance with the Employment Permit Acts. Where non-compliance is detected and undocumented workers are encountered in the course of an inspection, the employer may be prosecuted for breaches of the Act and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Protected Disclosures (14 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy will be aware that each public body is required underSection 22 of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 to publish an annual report setting out the number of protected disclosures received in the preceding year and the action taken (if any). This report must not result in persons making disclosures being identifiable. The Departments Protected Disclosures Report for 2017 is attached...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Weather Events (8 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: On the 24thof October 2023, my department opened two Emergency Business Flooding Schemes for small businesses, sports clubs, community and voluntary organisations unable to secure flood insurance and affected by flooding in Counties Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Kilkenny and Louth. On the 1stof November 2023 this was extended to provide Emergency Humanitarian Aid to those affected in Louth,...