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Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Ireland (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) is a €500 million fund, running from 2018 to 2027, established as part of the National Development Plan under Project Ireland 2040. It is administered by Enterprise Ireland on behalf of my Department. The Fund is available for collaborative projects seeking investment in the development and deployment of disruptive innovative...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: EU Directives (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not incurred any costs in relation to fines for non-transposition of EU directives into Irish law.

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Industrial Development (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The property that the Deputy is referring to is not owned by IDA Ireland. However, the Agency has included this building in its database of available property solutions for prospective clients looking to invest or expand in County Kerry. More generally, County Kerry has witnessed a number of significant announcements from IDA client companies in recent years including investments from...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Building on the extensive enterprise and employment supports that had already been deployed, the €7.4 billion July Stimulus Package was, as promised, a package of measures of sufficient scale that demonstrates the commitment this Government has to stand behind enterprises, limit the damage to our economy wreaked by this pandemic and get our people back to work. Indeed, it is bigger in...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Credit Guarantee Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Announced as part of the Government’s suite of supports for businesses that have been negatively impacted as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ireland, the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme will facilitate up to €2 billion in lending to eligible businesses. The Scheme offers a partial Government guarantee (80%) to participating finance providers against losses on qualifying...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Government introduced the July Stimulus €7bn package of supports for firms of all sizes, which includes the wage subsidy scheme, the pandemic unemployment payment for the self-employed, grants, low-cost loans, write-off of commercial rates and deferred tax liabilities, all of which will help to improve cashflow amongst SMEs. Full details on all COVID-19 supports for business are...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Debenhams is a court-supervised liquidation, subject to oversight of the High Court and accordingly is sub judice. Under the Companies Act 2014, I have no power to intervene in a court-supervised liquidation. Similarly, the Government cannot intervene with a liquidator, who has a statutory duty to realise assets and distribute to creditors in accordance with the law and who reports to the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The July Jobs Stimulus Plan announced by the Government contains a suite of tax, loan and expenditure measures designed to directly support business at all levels of the economy that are negatively impacted by Covid-19. The Stimulus Plan includes a number of fiscal measures which have been set out in the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No.2) Bill 2020, published in August 2020. The Tax...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Contracts (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not engaged a third-party company to conduct online and-or social media monitoring and-or provide reports on social media coverage of my Department in each of the years from 2017 to date.

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Staff (6 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The number of staff on sick leave in my Department between March and September by month in 2019 and 2020 and the number of sick days accounted for by my Department by month over the period are set out in tabular form below. The total number of sick leave days accounted for in the period March to September 2019 is 7384 and for the same period in 2020 is 4077. MONTH YEAR...

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

Leo Varadkar: The COVID-19 Online Retail Scheme, administered on my Department's behalf by Enterprise Ireland, supports companies in the indigenous retail sector who have already started an online journey, to further enhance and strengthen their online presence, which will have the most immediate impact enabling them to respond to both domestic and international consumer demand with a competitive online...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Youth Unemployment (1 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I am conscious that the economic impact of COVID-19 has not been the same across all sectors of the economy. For some sectors, especially those that require personal contact with customers, such as hospitality, it has been more difficult to adapt to social distancing requirements.  We also know our young people have been disproportionally impacted by COVID-19 and we must ensure they are...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware, the EU-Mercosur Agreement is the EU’s largest trade deal to date and includes a Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapter, which the European Commission has highlighted, builds on the highest standards found in other modern Agreements – such as those with Mexico or Japan.  The TSD chapter promotes sustainable development as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Restart Grant Plus scheme is grant is a contribution towards the cost of re-opening or keeping a business operational and re-connecting with employees and customers. The grant could be used to defray ongoing fixed costs, for example, utilities, insurance, refurbishment or for measures to ensure employee and customer safety.   In order to be eligible for the scheme a business...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Microenterprise Loan Fund, operated by Microfinance Ireland assists businesses with fewer than ten employees.  It provides much-needed funding to help microenterprises meet payments for stock, working capital requirements and other overhead expenses through the provision of low-cost lending facilities. Microfinance Ireland provides vital support to microenterprises by filling the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Microenterprise Loan Fund, operated by Microfinance Ireland assists businesses with fewer than ten employees.  It provides much-needed funding to help microenterprises meet payments for stock, working capital requirements and other overhead expenses through the provision of low-cost lending facilities. Microfinance Ireland provides vital support to microenterprises by filling the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Microenterprise Loan Fund, operated by Microfinance Ireland assists businesses with fewer than ten employees.  It provides much-needed funding to help microenterprises meet payments for stock, working capital requirements and other overhead expenses through the provision of low-cost lending facilities. Microfinance Ireland provides vital support to microenterprises by filling the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Microfinance [MFI] Ireland Loan Fund assists businesses with fewer than ten employees.  It provides much-needed funding to help microenterprises meet payments for stock, working capital requirements and other overhead expenses through the provision of low-cost lending facilities. The MFI COVID-19 Loan Scheme assists businesses which have been impacted negatively by COVID-19 an...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Meetings (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Details of meetings with trade unions that I, or officials from my Department, have had with trade unions since my appointment as Minister are set out in the table below. Date Trade Unions Met Attendance Purpose of Meeting 16/07/20 Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Department Officials ICTU Representatives Remote...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: A media monitoring service is provided to my Department by a private contractor, Truehawk Media. My Department has spent €13,038, inclusive of VAT, from January 2020 to date on the provision of this service.