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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Local Enterprise Offices have just come out of an 8th consecutive year of growth with 7,400 new jobs created by LEO clients in 2021. The LEOs now support over 7,100 companies financially within their portfolio with almost 36,000 associated jobs and a net gain of 3,000 jobs in 2021. That is not to mention the thousands of other businesses they have helped with additional supports such as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation is a key policy priority of mine and this Government. Throughout 2021, my Department has overseen the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024. These are ‘bottom-up’ plans, developed by regional stakeholders which identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 (No 5 of 2022) was published on 24 January 2022. The Bill will require businesses to clearly display their policy on how tips, gratuities and mandatory service charges are distributed, and provides for similar provisions for new models of work such as platform workers who are not direct employees, but their work typically...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: My Department, through Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, and the LEOs, provide assistance to companies in every county of Ireland to start and scale, innovate, and remain competitive in international markets. Focusing on Galway, in 2021, 8,122 people were employed across 215 Enterprise Ireland client companies. 1,056 jobs were created resulting in a net increase in employment of 714. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation is a key policy priority of mine and this Government. Throughout 2021, my Department has overseen the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024. These are ‘bottom-up’ plans, developed by regional stakeholders which identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: A wide range of loans and grants have been provided by my Department in 2020 and 2021 in the context of Covid and Brexit and a table of these is updated every month on my Department’s website. In terms of loans, the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme saw 8,023 loans drawn down during 2020 and 2021. At the end of January 2022, 1,112 loans were drawn down under the Covid-19 Loan Scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Rates of pay and conditions in a given sector are primarily a matter for its workers and employers. In relation to the Hotel and Catering (restaurants and pubs) sectors, there are established Joint Labour Committees (JLC) in place. A JLC is composed of equal numbers of representatives of employers and workers in an employment sector with an independent chairman. The Committee meets to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: On 11 January 2022, Enterprise Ireland's end of year results for 2021 were announced. In total, 20,342 new jobs were created by companies supported by Enterprise Ireland, resulting in a net job increase of 11,911 when job losses are taken into account, the highest annual increase in net employment ever reported by Enterprise Ireland. Total employment by companies supported by Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from within the EEA at that time. The system is, by design, vacancy led and managed through the operation of the occupation lists: the critical...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation is a key policy priority of mine and this Government. Throughout 2021, my Department has overseen the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024. These are ‘bottom-up’ plans, developed by regional stakeholders which identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: My Department together with Enterprise Ireland is committed to building on the South East’s regional strengths working with partners such as the Local Enterprise Offices, the South East BIC and New Frontiers Carlow IT, to deliver initiatives that assist entrepreneurship and foster a new generation of innovative and ambitious start-ups in Carlow and the South East. In 2021, 3,500...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Enterprise Centres provide important infrastructure for entrepreneurs and are an essential part of the start-up ecosystem across Ireland. The Centres, many of which are regionally based, provide space, mentoring and support to start-up founders and teams, helping them to scale internationally. To date, my Department has provided funding of €250 million administered by Enterprise...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation is a key policy priority of mine and this Government. Throughout 2021, my Department has overseen the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024. These are ‘bottom-up’ plans, developed by regional stakeholders which identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market. The employment permits regime is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages in the State, required to develop and support enterprise for the benefit of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Local Enterprise Offices act as a ‘first stop shop’ providing advice and guidance, financial assistance, and training to anyone wishing to start or grow their own business. The LEOs promote entrepreneurship, foster start-ups and develop existing micro and small enterprises at a local level, be that at rural community, town, village or city level, delivering advisory and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reports (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: An SME Growth Taskforce of entrepreneurs, business leaders and other stakeholders was established in September 2020 to fulfil the commitment made in the Programme for Government to draw up an ambitious long-term strategic blueprint for SMEs and entrepreneurs beyond COVID-19. Between September and December 2020, the SME Taskforce, which was assisted by four dedicated subgroups, developed a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Universal and equitable access to vaccines is crucial in the global fight against COVID-19 and Governments in the Developed World must do more to ensure this. The Government is a very strong supporter of vaccine equity in the world. Morally we need to make sure the world is vaccinated. As the Deputy is aware, International Trade is a competence of the EU under the Treaties and in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: On 28 April 2021, I announced my intention to issue an Order to give effect to a statutory recommendation of the Labour Court concerning minimum rates of remuneration and other terms and conditions in the Security Sector. The Order was to apply from 1 September 2021. An ex-parte application to initiate legal proceedings challenging the underlying legislation in the High Court was lodged in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: The Local Enterprise Offices act as a ‘first stop shop’ providing advice and guidance, financial assistance, and other supports to anyone wishing to start or grow their own business. The Local Enterprise Office can offer direct grant aid to microenterprises (10 employees or fewer) in the manufacturing and internationally traded services sectors which, over time, have the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (10 Feb 2022)

Damien English: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market. The system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit nationals from outside the EEA, where such skills or expertise cannot be sourced from...