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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below sets out the amount spent by my Department in respect of legal costs or legal services in the past 10 years up to September 2024. Year Legal Costs Amount 2014 €434,804 2015 €381,821 2016 €591,647 2017 €853,851 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Protection (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The answer below has been compiled in respect of personal data breaches under the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). As the Deputy will be aware, the GDPR was introduced on 25th May 2018. From that date, Data Controllers are mandated under Article 33(5) of the GDPR to record all personal data breaches that occur within their organisations. These records may be reviewed by the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Travel (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below provides the total costs associated for my Department in relation to trips abroad taken by Ministers in the Department in the past 5 years up to and including September 2024. Year Costs associated with Travel Abroad 2020 €6,322.19 2021 €9,757.00 2022 €38,485.03 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The public relations services providers engaged by my Department and Offices of my Department together with details of the services supplied and the expenditure on each, from 2014 to 2018., are set out in the table below. My Department has not incurred any public relations services costs from 2019 to date and consequently has not engaged any third party companies to provide same. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department considers engaging consultancy services in cases where there is not the necessary expertise to deliver a project in-house, in cases where an external assessment is deemed essential, or in cases where a project must be completed within a short time scale, and although the expertise or experience may be available in-house, performing the task would involve a prohibitive...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Details of advertising spend for both traditional and online advertising for the past ten years are set out in tabular form below. My Department did not undertake any online advertising until 2019. Year Traditional Advertising Costs€ Online Advertising Costs€ Total€ 2014 80,287 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Commissions of Investigation (16 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department has not been involved in any commissions of investigation in the time period specified and accordingly, no associated costs have been incurred.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The below table shows the number of staff that worked in my Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. Year Number of Staff Grade of each staff 2019 12 1 x PO 2 x AP2 x HEO4 x EO3 x CO 2020 14 1 x PO 2 x AP3 x HEO4 x EO 3 x CO 2021 12 1...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: My department has conducted five paid advertising campaigns to date in 2024. The purpose and cost of these campaigns, along with the agencies that conducted the campaigns are set out in the table attached.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: As part of Budget 2025, I announced the Power Up Grant which builds on the success of the Increased Cost of Business Scheme. This scheme is for businesses in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors who received a second payment of the ICOB grant. These businesses are now in line to receive a €4,000 Power Up Grant once they continue to meet the eligibility requirements. As was the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Sanctions (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy may know, votes on trade defence issues at the EU are confidential. The vote followed a thorough investigation by the Commission, in which it had concluded that the battery electric vehicle (BEV) value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidisation. At the vote of the Trade Defence Instruments Committee on 4 October, the European Commission’s proposal to impose...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Engagements (15 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: I can confirm that during my time as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, no media representative has travelled with me as part of a Government Delegation. I can also confirm that, since the formation of the Government, no media representative has travelled with the respective Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Employment as part of a Government Delegation.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Ireland’s openness to trade, investment, people and ideas is a key national strength that has helped transform our economy and society into what it is today. In line with my department’s Trade and Investment Strategy – Value for Ireland, Values for the World, the Strategy seeks to proactively pursue trade, investment and marketing opportunities across the European Union...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Deputy, In line with my departments Trade and Investment Strategy – Value for Ireland, Values for the World, Ireland’s openness to trade, investment, people and ideas is a key national strength that has helped transform our economy and society into what it is today. As Minister for Enterprise Trade and Environment I led two joint Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland Trade...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business Scheme (ICOB) has successfully paid out €243m to date to almost 75,000 SMEs right around the country, including over 38,000 SMEs in the retail and hospitality sector. The ICOB scheme is now closed to registrations. As part of Budget 2025, I announced the Power Up Grant which builds on the success of the Increased Cost of Business Scheme. This scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reviews (10 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Government's Civil Service Renewal Plan includes a commitment to undertake a programme of Organisational Capability Reviews (OCR) of Government Departments and Offices to enhance their organisational development. An OCR of the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (DBEI) was carried out during 2018 by a Capability Review Team (CRT) from the Department of Public Expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (9 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: In Budget 2025 I am pleased to say that I secured funding to continue to support measures that assist small businesses on their digital journey. Funding secured for the 31 Local Enterprise Offices in 2025 will be made available to provide for the Digital for Business programme, which has been extended to small businesses with up to 50 employees. This free consultancy support helps...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (9 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: The Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) scheme has successfully paid out €243m to almost 75,000 SMEs right around the country, including over 38,000 SMEs in the retail and hospitality sector. The ICOB scheme is now closed to registrations. On 15 May, the Government announced a second grant payment for retail and hospitality and beauty sectors for the same amount as the initial grant....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a key focus of the work of my Department and our Agencies. In that regard, IDA Ireland is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and is targeting that at least half of all investments - that is 400 of 800 - from 2021 to 2024 to regional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Oct 2024)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a key focus of the work of my Department and our Agencies. In that regard, IDA Ireland is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and is targeting that at least half of all investments - that is 400 of 800 - from 2021 to 2024 to regional...