Results 861-880 of 8,167 for speaker:Peter Burke
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I think the Deputy is referring to the Amgen site. We will continue to engage with the IDA. There have been a number of engagements further to parliamentary questions on the Deputy’s behalf in connection with it. I am happy to raise it with the IDA on the Deputy’s behalf and to continue to try to ensure we secure a business for it, which is important to the region.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I thank the Senator for her interest in the SME sector. She quite rightly pointed out how important the green transition is to that sector. That is why, first of all, to demonstrate our support in the SME package we have increased funding streams. For the energy efficiency criteria, we reduced the capital contribution from applicants to 25% for grants up to the value of €15,000....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Regarding the green transition, the fund for which the Senator mentioned, there have been 340 interventions for audits from January to May. Absolutely, that needs to ramp up significantly on a national level. We will provide the impetus to do that. Obviously the LEOs have a service level agreement with Enterprise Ireland in terms of adjudicating on their performance and how they go about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I thank the Deputy for his questions. I had my first meeting of LEEF last week, which was very positive. I have met with a number of the unions and business representatives. I have also met with ISME. It has been on the business forum and I met it at a separate bilateral engagement to hear its concerns. Obviously, it is affiliate to and working through the committee currently under IBEC....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Will the Deputy let me finish? IBM creates significant employment in Waterford. To see it continue to prosper and grow is significant. There is the new technological university, of which I am sure Deputy Shanahan is aware. It provides huge employment and services for the upskilling required throughout the country. In the region of €170 million was put in through the urban...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I listed a number of multimillion euro interventions in Waterford. We have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: There is well over €1 billion of investment that will happen in the future, be it urban regeneration, investment in the technical university, hospital, or the greenway - an exceptional demonstration of the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Irrespective of where it is, the Government has about €165 billion of a capital programme over the next decade. It is underwritten by strong planning policy to ensure through, Project Ireland 2040, the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Look at IBM. That demonstrates confidence in Waterford.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: We received the recommendation from the Low Pay Commission. To implement it, we await advice from the Attorney General's office. We also await an impact assessment on the economy. There have been significant cost increases. I want to ensure the actions I take do not have any negative effects. It is important to realise it was a unanimous decision and the Government will respect it but I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: We are waiting on the advice from the Attorney General. I cannot say exactly when his advice will be presented to the Department. I hope we will keep the pressure on to ensure it is not too long.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: We have done a significant amount of work through the LEEF committee. We met all actors to get together our plan for collective bargaining. Any country below 80% collective bargaining has to provide an action plan by the end of 2025, I think. We will meet that deadline. We are working on that plan. There are two issues relating to the LEEF high-level implementation group which require a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: There are three sectoral orders which have been increased over the past number of weeks, representing different sectors. There is the minimum wage, as I said. From 2015, there has been a 42% increase in the minimum wage to ensure there is progression for workers' rights. We have seen the introduction of sick pay on a statutory level. We banned zero-hour contracts. We brought in tips...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: We should work together collectively. That is not a bad thing. I am outlining-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I just want to push back in terms of the improvements that are made. I can demonstrate six or seven key changes over the last six years that support workers' conditions and workers' rights. We have the infrastructure working ahead, as I mentioned, through LEEF.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: Obviously, we are committed to increasing the living wage. That is the trajectory. It has that particular sectoral order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: First of all-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: It is at the minimum wage level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: To be fair, I have outlined what we are doing in terms of improving collective bargaining through the committees that we are working on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)
Peter Burke: I said to improve it. The Senator is not-----