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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: As the Deputy will be aware, last year, the then Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Leo Varadkar, requested the Low Pay Commission to again examine the issues relating to retaining or removing the sub-minimum or youth rates and to make recommendations on the subject. The Low Pay Commission takes an evidence-based approach to its work and asked the Economic...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: One of my Department’s Offices, the Companies Registration Office (CRO), uses machine learning to scan digitised annual returns to check whether they are signed in the appropriate places. This technology has proven to be very effective in delivering processing efficiencies for the CRO. The CRO received over 240,000 Annual Returns in 2022, all of which were processed using this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ministerial Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: For the purposes of Section 19 of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995, where there are no interests to disclose, there is no obligation on a Special Adviser to furnish a Nil Statement and no requirement on an Office holder to lay a nil statement of a Special Adviser before the Oireachtas. As such, there was no statements of interests filed in respect of the Special Advisers in this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The total advertising spend by my Department for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 was €454,906.99, and is broken down by national media outlet and local newspaper outlet below. During this time my Department carried out a number of advertising campaigns, including highlighting supports to business around Brexit, the National Remote Working Strategy and the Small Company Administrative...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Engagements (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department had six engagements with the Israeli government or related bodies during the time in question. In February 2021 a meeting was held between then Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Ambassador of Israel to Ireland to discuss Israeli strategy and performance in relation to Covid-19 management and vaccination. In February 2022, officials from my...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Engagements (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Officials from my Department had one engagement with the Palestinian Authority or related bodies during the time in question. An official from my Department attended an online meeting with the Palestinian Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in February 2023. This meeting was arranged and chaired by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform In respect of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department led on the publication of the original 'Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy' in summer 2018. A revised version of this Statement was developed and published in July of 2022, with collaboration on both documents from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the Department of Housing, Local Government and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 399 and 400 together. There were 32,426 new jobs created in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) companies in Ireland in 2022, bringing the total number of people employed in the FDI sector in Ireland to over 300,000 for the first time, despite an increasingly challenging global economic environment. The 2022 figures continued the pattern of sustained, robust...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: IDA Ireland’s property investment programme is aimed at supporting economic development and job creation across the country and provides property solutions available to IDA’s, Enterprise Ireland's and the Local Enterprise Offices' respective client bases. In this regard, the provision of property solutions is a key element of IDA’s marketing of the Midlands Region,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Budget 2024 (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Government has provided significant support to business throughout the period of rising cost of doing business and has been proactive in limiting the fallout from higher rates of inflation in input costs and prices. Prior to Budget 2024 a total of €12 billion – 4½ per cent of national income – was provided in direct relief to absorb some of the impact and ease...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department has not engaged the company in question, there are no costs to the Exchequer in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Enterprise Ireland's Horizon Scanning Team conducts ongoing assessments to identify emerging trends, innovations and opportunities across the technology space, both nationally and across global markets. By doing so and by adopting a long-term timeframe, Enterprise Ireland is able to strategically advise it’s client companies on the research and development as well as on strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) compiles statistical data in relation to Goods Exports and Imports. According to the CSO, the value of our goods exports to Israel was €271 million in 2017; €281 million in 2018; €318 million in 2019; €386 million in 2020; €821 million in 2021; and €1,049 million in 2022. The value of our goods imports from Israel...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland distinguishes between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967, in line with international law and the relevant UN Security Council resolutions. This position is common across all Government Departments. Under the EU Treaties, international trade is a competence vested in the European Commission whereby the Union's negotiating strength is as a bloc...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: As Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I have not submitted complaints to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since its establishment in respect of grants and or funds my Department provided. Similarly, no complaints have been submitted to An Garda Síochána in the past ten years in respect of grants and or funds my Department provided.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: In October of this year, I led a joint Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland trade mission to Illinois, Indianapolis and Michigan. The aim of the visit was to boost trade relationships with key IDA client companies and promote world class Irish companies in the Mid-West region. In 2022, Enterprise Ireland and the IDA delivered strong growth in North America, with Enterprise Ireland client...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: In recent months, reflecting a number of international economic uncertainties, we have seen global job loss announcements from a number of companies, in a number of sectors, most notably, ICT. In this regard, many businesses throughout the world are still adjusting to the current climate, which may, unfortunately, mean further redundancies worldwide, and, given the nature of Ireland's open,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department considers hiring external consultants in cases where there is not the necessary expertise to deliver the 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 Contracts (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department currently has no contracts with the company in question.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (7 Nov 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department considers hiring external consultants in cases where there is not the necessary expertise to deliver the 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...