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Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The persons appointment by me in my Department as Special Advisers are detailed in the following table. It should be noted that all appointments are subject to formal Government approval and relevant contracts will be laid before the Oireachtas in due course. All appointments will be made in line with the Public Service Management Act, 1997. Name Position Salary...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Employment Rights (29 Sep 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.  On 6th November 2019, the employer e-mailed my officials querying if different...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (29 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: As Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment my focus is to lead our country through the economic crisis that has been caused by the pandemic to get our businesses open and our people back to work. By the end of 2019, total employment in the IDA's client companies stood at over 245,000. Every region in Ireland has seen foreign direct investment-driven...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I am acutely aware of the difficulties faced by businesses across all sectors of the economy. I am in continuous engagement with my Ministerial colleagues on the optimal mix of supports for businesses, so that we have the right supports at the right time for business. As part of the July Stimulus package the Government provided a mix of supports, ranging from direct grants, to loans and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Departmental Staff (29 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: My Department uses workforce planning processes to identify the critical resource needs required to deliver its business goals.  Workforce planning is a key tool in enabling my Department to forecast its current and future staffing needs (subject to the limits of the annual estimates process, the usual budgetary constraints and approvals by the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Commercial Property (24 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Commercial leases and the provisions within them are a matter for the parties involved. Furthermore, receivers are independent in the exercise of their statutory duties and subject to court oversight. Therefore, it would be inappropriate to comment on the specific case raised by the Deputy. A receiver can be appointed on foot of the powers contained in a debenture (written loan agreement), or...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Grant Payments (24 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Local Authority guidelines outline that Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus funding is payable in respect of individual businesses only. An individual business may comprise of one or more rateable properties. However, only one claim is payable through the scheme. Chain stores and franchise stores are however eligible to submit separate applications for each individual business unit. I...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Health and Safety Authority (24 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The national Return to Work Safely Protocol should be used by all workplaces to adapt their workplace procedures and practices to comply fully with the COVID-19 related public health protection measures identified as necessary by the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health. The Protocol operates in parallel with existing workplace health and safety statutory requirements. The...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The national Return to Work Safely Protocol, introduced in May, is designed to support employers and workers to put measures in place that will prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. The Protocol sets out in very clear terms for employers and workers the steps that should have been taken before a workplace reopens and as it continues to operate. It can be used by all workplaces to...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Our employment rights frameworks are horizontal, meaning that any statutory employment right must protect all workers and cannot discriminate on a sectoral or other basis. I have this week announced my intention to examine how a statutory right to sick pay can be delivered to all workers in Ireland in a fair and proportionate manner. While we do not currently have a statutory right to...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The national Return to Work Safely Protocol, introduced in May, is designed to support employers and workers to put measures in place that will prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. The Protocol sets out in very clear terms the procedures and practices to be followed in all workplaces to ensure compliance with the COVID-19 related public health protection measures identified as...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: IDA Ireland (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: IDA Ireland operate a total of ten offices in Ireland. This number includes their headquarters in Dublin and nine regional offices across the North-East, North-West, Midlands, West, Mid-West and South-West regions. The Agency's regional teams - as well their staff in Dublin and overseas - are working hard to attract further investment to the regions. Those efforts are producing results, with...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Since the onset of COVID-19, my Department has worked to ensure that there are appropriate responses is in place to assist businesses that have been impacted by the economic disruptions arising as a result of the pandemic. These responses include information and advisory supports, as well as liquidity supports in the form of grants and loan guarantee schemes. My Department has worked with...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: State Bodies (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: A funding allocation of €6.057 million was provided for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) for 2019. This represented an increase of approximately 20% on the 2018 allocation and remained unchanged for 2020. The estimated full year cost for 2021 if the 2020 funding allocation for the ODCE increased by 33%, (€1.999 million), would be €8.056 million.

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Data (22 Sep 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. Where an employer requires an employee to work in more than one location then this should...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Liquidations (22 Sep 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: Work Permits (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: In March 2020, the Employment Permits Section of my Department implemented a COVID-19 contingency plan to ensure that the employment permit regime could continue to operate throughout the crisis. Since 30th March, the employment permit system has been operating fully remotely and online. Operational practices have been adjusted to replace the paper-based elements of the service to allow...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: In order to work in the State all non-EEA nationals require a valid employment permit or relevant immigration permission from the Minister for Justice and Equality which allows them to reside and work in the State without the requirement for an employment permit. The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that on 4th September 2020 a Critical Skills Employment Permit issued...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 120 and 121 together. As previously communicated to the Deputy via written correspondence, the Government decided to introduce a new grant scheme; i.e. the Restart Grant Plus scheme with higher grant levels, to the benefit of a much larger group of businesses. It was therefore decided to end the original Restart Grant scheme to allow for the enhanced...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Ministerial Meetings (22 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: My Department and its agencies have been focussed on coming up with solutions to help businesses overcome the challenges presented by the unprecedented difficulties caused by COVID-19. I am acutely aware of the issues facing the events sectors in Ireland. Officials in my Department, Ministers of State in my Department and I are in ongoing contact with representative bodies. In that context I...