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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Insurance Industry Regulation (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the EU Commission has exclusive competence for competition law, including conducting investigations into alleged infringements of Article 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. As the investigation referred to by the Deputy is an EU-led live investigation, it is not appropriate for me as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Living Wage Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Remuneration of all the staff of the Department is as sanctioned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for various individual grades in line with Government policy.  Within the time available it has not been possible to calculate an exact figure requested by the Deputy, however, I can advise that the annual additional salary cost to the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The value of all payments made by Science Foundation Ireland (including capital grants for research and other operational payments) in each of the years 2006 to 2015 is detailed in the following table. Payments (including grants and operational) Year €'000 2006 148,644 2007 164,791 2008 169,815 2009 182,496 2010 158,388 2011 166,638 2012 171,658 2013 161,492 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy has clarified that the question relates to payments made by Science Foundation Ireland to beneficiary institutions in each of the years 2006 to 2015. The information is detailed in the following table. Total Grant Payments by Year Year Grant Payments  2006 141,512,015 2007 156,622,123 2008 160,138,353 2009 173,550,166 2010 150,134,655 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Science Foundation Ireland Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The value of the payments made to projects by Science Foundation Ireland in the overall area of healthcare in each of the years 2006 to 2015 is detailed in the following table. Please note the following caveats: 1. SFI brought in the implementation of award categorisation in 2009. Therefore, there may be awards prior to that time that could have been aligned to "Healthcare" but as the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Contracts (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: My Department was not a party to the contract in respect of the Succeed-in-Ireland initiative. The contract underpinning the initiative was between the IDA and the company contracted to operate it, Connect Ireland. The Board of the IDA decided, in November 2016, not to retender for the initiative at that time. A further extension of the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Staff Data (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: IDA Ireland previously received official sanction from my Department to recruit 10 additional Brexit staff members. Four such employees have since been appointed to date and the recruitment process for the remaining six is ongoing. IDA Ireland has undertaken a rigorous recruitment process to ensure that the best candidates are identified for all these roles and the Agency will make the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The providers of the services procured by my Department and its Offices over the period 2013 to 21 June 2017, as requested by the Deputy, are set out in the following table.  My Department uses external service providers having regard to its business needs for such services. In engaging such providers, the Department is mindful of the need to secure value for money and, accordingly,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Consultations (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The responses to the public consultation process (which was launched on 20 January 2017 with a deadline of 31 March for submissions) were published on my Department’s website on 9 May 2017. These responses contain a considerable amount of interesting and informative material about the organisation of major entertainment and sporting events and the operation of the primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: As was announced previously, my Department will be commissioning an independent review of the Succeed-in-Ireland programme. That review, which will be carried out after details of the initiative’s full and final costs are available, will equip us with a thorough understanding of the programme’s results and its contribution to employment generation in the State. The terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Apart from significant losses to the Exchequer that can arise from cases of so-called bogus self-employment, the practice has serious implications from an employment rights perspective. In this respect, it is important that individuals are correctly designated regarding their employment status so that those who ought to be designated as employees are not deprived of their employment rights....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Copyright Infringement (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: In general, playing music in public places is an act that is governed by copyright law.  The relevant legislation is the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (the CRRA). This legislation gives the owners of copyright works, which includes musical works, certain rights over the use of their works.  If covered by copyright, the act of making the musical work available in public is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I understand that the Deputy raised the matter of the possible misuse of the trainee system in the film industry in the context of the film tax relief scheme in a recent Dail Question to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, who has responsibility in this area. I understand further that the Minister asked the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Deputy as previously advised, the Inspection and Enforcement Services of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) monitor employment conditions to ensure compliance with and, where necessary, the enforcement of employment rights legislation. Prior to 1 June last, SI No. 417 of 2015 Employment Regulation Order (Security Industry Joint Labour Committee) 2015, which came into operation on 1...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a quarterly basis only. In the first quarter of 2017, there were 173 site visits, up from 136 for the same period in 2016.  It is expected that data on site visits for quarter two 2017 will be available at the end of this month.  The table sets out, on a county-by-county basis, the number of IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Programme for Partnership Government commitment is to support the creation of 200,000 jobs by 2020, including 135,000 jobs outside of Dublin.   Regional job creation targets have been set through the Regional Action Plan for Jobs, the primary objective of which is to have a further 10 to 15 per cent at work in each region by 2020, with the aim, as set out in Enterprise 2025, of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table: Implementation Committee Mid-East Midlands Mid-West North East North West West South West South East Dublin Total number of members 32 36 35 35 38 40 39 56 35 Female members 14 11 15 8 7 11 18 16 10 Male members 18 25 20 27 31 29 21 40 25 Established (date of first meeting) 15 July 2016 2 March 2016 9 March 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 to 64, inclusive, together. A key feature of regional trade agreements, which comprise of customs unions, free trade agreements (“FTAs”), economic partnership agreements (“EPAs”), and bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”) is the provision for the settlement of disputes between the state parties concerning the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Waste Management (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is the statutory independent body responsible for the enforcement of domestic and EU competition law in the State.  Section 9 (5) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 provides that the CCPC is independent in the performance of its functions. I, as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, have no direct function...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unfair Dismissals (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: With effect from 1 October 2015, the activities of the Labour Relations Commission, the National Employment Rights Authority, the Equality Tribunal and the first instance functions of the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Labour Court were merged into a new Body of First Instance, known as the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).  From 1 October 2015, all complaints fall to be...