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Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Debenhams Retail (Ireland) Limited is a court-supervised liquidation and subject to oversight of the High Court.  This Court process remains ongoing and accordingly is sub judice.  Under section 624 of the Companies Act 2014, it is the statutory duty of a liquidator to administer the property of the company; this includes ascertaining the extent of the property and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: As part of Budget 2021, my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and Transport Eamon Ryan TD is introducing specific measures for taxi and hackney businesses. The Minister is providing funding to the National Transport Authority to enable it to waive annual vehicle licence renewal fees for 2021. In addition, Minister Ryan is allocating €15 million...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The primary responsibility of IDA Ireland is to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Ireland and to retain, transform and expand the existing base of FDI companies that have already invested and located here. IDA Ireland’s strategy, Winning Foreign Direct Investment 2015 - 2019, set out challenging targets in respect of the FDI sector for the period. These targets included...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The pandemic has caused untold damage to people's lives and livelihoods. I know that too many businesses and workers have been severely impacted by the restrictions needed to ensure public health safety during the pandemic. Our response to COVID-19 will continue to assist those businesses affected. Budget 2021 provides a significant additional package of tax and expenditure measures to build...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: All applications for employment permits are processed in line with the Employment Permits Acts and associated Regulations which lay down in legislation the criteria in relation to the application, grant and refusal of an employment permit. All employment permits are employer and location specific and any new employment requires a new employment permit. Generally where an employment permit...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Restart Grant Plus was introduced as part of the response to the effects on business of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. The Scheme has been operated by the 31 Local Authorities on behalf of my Department, and closed to new applications on 31 October 2020. It was replaced as part of Budget 2021 with the Covid Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) operated by the Revenue Commissioners. ...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) has provisionally applied since 21st September 2017, meaning that duties on 98% of products (tariff lines) that the EU trades with Canada have been removed. The reduced trade barriers, tariff elimination, simplified customs procedures and more compatible technical requirements all make it easier and cheaper for Irish companies of...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Job Creation (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Investment to support a significant number of jobs was approved by Enterprise Ireland in 2020 across a range of sectors and the full amount of jobs created in Enterprise Ireland supported companies in 2020 will be included in the agency's Annual Business Review, which will be published in 2021. The list below refers solely to job announcements by Enterprise Ireland supported client companies...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Job Creation (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The full sectoral breakdown on new jobs announcements supported by the Industrial Development Authority in 2020 is set out at: There have been opportunities for growth right across the IDA Ireland portfolio as new business models have emerged from disruptive technology developments, the rapid adoption of social media, Brexit and new regulations around the management of data. The global...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Preparations (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The North West Region is serviced by IDA Ireland offices in Sligo and Donegal supporting a base of 44 client companies who collectively employ 6,992 people in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.  These companies represent high value manufacturing in sectors such as Pharmaceutical, Medical Technology, Engineering and International Financial Services. The region is also well serviced...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Ministerial Correspondence (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 131, 137 and 139 together. The correspondence referred to was received in the Office of the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on 20th November 2020 and the matter is receiving attention.

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme was launched by Government on the 7th September and is the biggest ever state-backed loan guarantee Scheme in Ireland. The Scheme provides an 80% State guarantee on lending until the end of this year, for terms between 3 months and five and a half years and offers a range of lending products between €10,000 and €1 million including...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I am keenly aware that publicans are making a massive sacrifice to protect their communities and I am committed to ensuring that the Government offers as much assistance and support as possible. On Friday I met with business and employer representative organisations, including publicans, to brief them and explain the new COVID-19 measures. The Government’s ‘Resilience and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I am keenly aware that businesses are making a massive sacrifice to protect their communities and I am committed to ensuring that the Government will offer as much assistance and support as possible. My Department has worked to ensure that appropriate supports are in place for businesses that require finance as they develop their response to their exposure to impacts arising from COVID-19....

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I am keenly aware that businesses are making a massive sacrifice to protect their communities and I am committed to ensuring that the Government will offer as much assistance and support as possible. My Department has worked to ensure that appropriate supports are in place for businesses that require finance as they develop their response to their exposure to impacts arising from COVID-19....

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Contracts (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The table below sets out a schedule of all consultancy firms, accountancy firms, legal firms, project management firms and ICT firms that my Department has contracted in the period in question and describes the services that each firm was contracted to provide. The full cost for this broad range of services that the Deputy sought information on during the period in question was...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Ministerial Correspondence (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Registrar of Companies is a statutory role and the Registrar is independent in the exercise of this function. The Registrar has taken several decisions in the period since March 2020 to assist companies with the filing of annual returns due to challenges arising from the Covid-19 situation. I understand that the specific cases relevant to the Deputy’s question relate to...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Redundancy Payments (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: In March 2020 the Government introduced an emergency amendment to the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 which effectively suspends an employee’s entitlement to claim redundancy from their employer following certain periods of lay-off or short-time work due to Covid-19 during the emergency period. The Government was concerned that the financial impact of significant redundancy claims at this...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Restart Grant scheme was launched on 15 May 2020. As a result of increasing demand for the Scheme, the Restart Grant plus was launched in the Government’s July Jobs Stimulus as part of the Government’s evolving response to the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on business. The Restart Plus scheme closed as of 31 October and has been superseded as part of Budget 2021...

Organisation of Working Time (Amendment) (Carryover of Annual Leave) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: First Stage (26 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: No.