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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has introduced a €12bn 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 COVID19 supports for business are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has introduced a €12bn 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 COVID19 supports for business are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: On 19June, the Government, having considered the expert public health advice provided by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), approved the rephasing of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. Apart from some exceptions, most sectors have been brought forward to Phase 3, which began on Monday 29th June. Pubs and hotel bars operating as restaurants can open from 29th...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trading Online Voucher Scheme (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will be aware that the Trading Online Voucher scheme is delivered by the 31 Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) on behalf of the former Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment as part of the national digital strategy.  On 8 April, the then Government announced amendments to the scheme, to address the challenges posed by Covid 19, intended to boost the numbers...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 employers have specific duties to ensure the safety, health and welfare at work of all employees. These duties include the employee’s workspace where employees are required to work from home and includes managing and conducting all work activities to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, the safety, health and welfare those...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I understand that the Deputy is referring to a site that was sold - on the basis of a 999-year lease - by IDA Ireland to Continental Promotion International Limited in 1998. The company subsequently constructed a building on the site before it was dissolved in January 2016. The IDA retain the underlying residual freehold title of this site which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has introduced a €12bn 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 COVID19 supports for business are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 356 and 359 together. COVID-19 is already a reportable disease under various statutes. In the first instance, it was included as a notifiable disease under the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Diseases Regulations 2020. Any infectious disease pandemic is first and foremost a matter of public health, for which a legal basis already exists in Irish law under...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) will continue to be the ‘first-stop-shop’ for advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports for anyone intending to start or grow a business.  The LEOs provide a ‘signposting’ service in relation to all relevant State supports available through agencies such as Enterprise Ireland, Revenue, the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The National Return to Work Safely Protocol is the primary guide for businesses in making their assessments and adapting their workplace procedures and practices to comply fully with the COVID-19 related public health protection measures.  It sets out in very clear terms for employers and employees the steps that they must take firstly before a workplace reopens, and then while it...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: My Department’s HR policies and practices are governed by Circulars and guidance set centrally by the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform (DPER), including employment terms and conditions, and also Circular 4 of 2003 which promotes e-working in the Civil Service. During the current Covid-19 pandemic my Department is closely following the guidance that all those who...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Safety (30 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Health and Safety Authority has responsibility for the occupational health and safety of workers and those who may be affected by a work activity. The Authority is the lead agency in relation to the Return to Work Safely Protocol and in encouraging and checking compliance with the Protocol. In addition, as part of the whole of Government approach and to supplement the efforts of the...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais: Tairiscint - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (27 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Today, we broke with tradition by electing a new Taoiseach and Government in this centre rather than Leinster House. We found a new way of doing things, without sacrificing any of the things that really matter. Let this symbolise the mission of this new Government, putting aside the divisions of the past to find new ways of doing things, a new approach that is in the best interests of our...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (27 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Fine Gael will not make a nomination on this occasion but will support the nomination of Deputy Micheál Martin as Taoiseach. I will speak at greater length when the Dáil reconvenes later but I want to briefly make three points. The first is that this is an historic occasion. I believe Civil War politics ended a long time ago in our country but, today, Civil War politics ends in...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Before I make my statement I want to endorse what was said earlier about the death of Detective Garda Colm Horkan. The remarkable outpouring of grief we saw over the weekend says a lot about our values as a country and the respect we have for the men and women who uphold our laws. Whenever we lose a member of An Garda Síochána in the line of duty, it wounds us all and we grieve as...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: My heartfelt sympathies are with all those who have lost family members or friends during the Covid-19 pandemic. The restrictions which have been necessary in order to protect public health have impacted greatly on how we as societies, as communities and as families mark the death of a loved one. In particular we miss the opportunity to come together to remember those we have lost. It...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Thanks to the progress made by the Irish people in suppressing the virus, on Friday 5 June, the Government agreed to accelerate the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. This means certain sectors and public amenities will be able to reopen earlier than previously planned. The reconfigured Roadmap will consist of four phases, instead of five, with Phase 3 beginning on 29 June and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (16 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I spoke with First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill on Friday, 5 June, when I briefed them on the Government plans for the second phase of easing the Covid related restrictions from 8 June as set out in the roadmap. I advised them of our plans to condense the five-phase roadmap into a four-phase plan, allowing us to move out of lockdown at a faster pace...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business sets out a framework and processes for assessing how we can keep the level of transmission of the virus as low as possible while balancing continuing restrictions proportionately with the positive social and economic benefits which can accrue from the lifting of some restrictions. The framework approach contains a range of indicative measures...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: The Cabinet Committee on Brexit, Foreign and European Affairs last met on 9 December 2019. In the period since, the full Cabinet has frequently considered and received updates on EU issues, including on management of the Covid-19 crisis at EU level and the MFF negotiations, Brexit, and international matters as appropriate.