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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (6 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: Under the Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005, employers have an obligation to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety, health and welfare of employees at work. Employers have a duty to undertake a risk assessment to identify the hazards in the workplace and to put in place appropriate controls to protect employees. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (6 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: The deliberative process to review the occupations lists (Ineligible Occupations List and Critical Skills Occupations List) for employment permits is nearing completion. The review incorporated a public consultation to which some submissions were made in regard to healthcare sector. The Interdepartmental Group on Economic Migration Policy was established to oversee the process and its final...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: Like others, my first thoughts in speaking here this evening are, of course, with the victims of that tragic attack on Thursday a week ago but I wish to express my absolute confidence in Deputy McEntee, as Minister for Justice, in her record as Minister and her response to those tragic events of the past week or so. Over the past couple of days, we have had the provisional propaganda...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: Ireland has a robust suite of employment rights legislation in place to protect and support workers. Statutory and contractual employment terms apply in relation to the payment of wages. Failure to pay all or part of the wages due to an employee is considered an unlawful deduction and a complaint can be made under the Payment of Wages Act, 1991. The Payment of Wages Act 1991...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: In 2022, Carlow Community Enterprise Centres CLG secured €72,422 in funding through my Department’s Regional Enterprise Innovation Scoping Scheme (REISS). This funding was earmarked for the formulation of a business plan and design master plan for the enterprise campus situated on O'Brien Road, Carlow. I have been advised by Enterprise Ireland, which administers the REISS...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Strategic Workforce Advisory Group (SWAG), led by the Department of Health, was established to examine strategic workforce challenges in publicly and privately funded home support and nursing home providers and its report was published in October 2022. Recommendations of the report included the provision of access to employment permits for roles in the nursing home sector and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: Ireland has a robust suite of employment rights legislation to protect and support workers who are facing redundancy. Employers must comply with a number of legal obligations when proposing redundancies, particularly when it is a collective redundancy situation. The Protection of Employment Act 1977 defines a collective redundancy as where, during any period of 30 consecutive days, the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (5 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: The National Minimum Wage applies to most employees. It is the minimum hourly pay rate that must be paid. It applies to full-time, part-time, temporary, casual employees and seasonal workers. Close relatives of the employer and apprentices are generally excluded under the Act. Section 39 of the Minimum Notice Act 2000 provides where an employer has not paid to an employee an amount of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (30 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: The deliberative process to review the occupations lists (Ineligible Occupations List and Critical Skills Occupation List) for employment permits is nearing completion. The review incorporates a public consultation to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to submit data on the extent of skills or labour shortages. These evidence-based submissions were considered by the Interdepartmental...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: I would very much like to say something.

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: I do not want to keep people too long before concluding but it would be remiss of me to come to the Chamber on a topic this sensitive and important without recognising the considerable work completed by Senator Sherlock and her group colleagues. I commend the Senator for her constructive actions this evening and throughout the period of the Bill's consideration. This was certainly the...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: I love being from Dublin. I love this city and feel lucky and fortunate to be able to call it home, as does everyone in this Chamber who calls it home for their whole lives or the many people who have only been calling it home for the past couple of years. We have seen this capital city at its best so many times in recent years, but I know we all agree that last Thursday we saw it at its...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: She should not have to ask.

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

Neale Richmond: Enterprise Ireland (EI) is the Government agency responsible for developing Irish business globally. Latest employment figures reflect the creation of 19,660 new jobs by EI client companies in 2022. This jobs growth translates into a net increase of 10,841 jobs created last year. Enterprise Ireland companies now employ 218,178 people, an increase of 5% on the 2021 outturn and 68% of these...

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

Neale Richmond: The Employment Permits Section of my Department informs me that a General Employment Permit application for the person concerned in the details supplied was received on 9 November 2023. On 10 November the application was formally accepted and placed in the processing queue. Applications for employment permits are dealt with in date order. As of 21 November 2023, the Employment Permits Section...

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

Neale Richmond: Through Ireland’s membership to the European Space Agency (ESA), University College Dublin (UCD) secured the opportunity in May 2017 to develop, launch and operate, what will be, Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 through the ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme. The EIRSAT-1 project is led by UCD, with participation from academic staff and students and is supported...

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

Neale Richmond: The Occupations Lists (Ineligible Occupations List and Critical Skills Occupation List) for employment permits are currently being revised as part of an evidence-based review which incorporates a public consultation process that provides stakeholders with an opportunity to submit data on the extent of skills or labour shortages. The deliberative process is ongoing at present. Submissions...

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

Neale Richmond: Significant progress has been made in finding a solution to allow employees of companies that cease trading without engaging in any formal wind-up process to access the Insolvency Payments Scheme. Due to the complex and cross-cutting issues involved, an inter-departmental Working Group was established to agree a solution in December 2022. The group was made up of a number of Government...

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

Neale Richmond: Enterprise Ireland (EI) supports Irish businesses to take a strategic approach to growing internationally. Their 39 international offices can provide direct introductions to potential customers and partners, whether it involves an experienced international seller or a first-time exporter. Businesses supported by Enterprise Ireland have access to a range of expert teams from Development...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Work Permits (23 Nov 2023)

Neale Richmond: I confirm that once it has been reviewed and signed off by me and my ministerial colleagues, it will, of course, be published and reviewed. The ambition is to do it within the next fortnight. I will be sure to stay in close contact with the Deputy directly should that timeline deviate by a day or two, as she will appreciate sometimes happens in these matters.