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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (27 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department and the agencies under our aegis are committed to providing an efficient, timely, professional, and courteous service to all our customers. The table below lists the email addresses at which members of the Oireachtas can contact the agencies under the aegis of my Department: State Body Email address Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (27 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department does not have any contracts with the company in question. My Department and Offices (the Companies Registration Office, the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland, the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission) do not own any property. The Department and Offices are tenants in ten buildings across the country provided by the Office of Public Works.

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: I wish to share time with Deputy O'Dowd.

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: As has been said well by the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, and Opposition spokespeople, the Good Friday Agreement is a treasure unearthed after a huge amount of work and bravery in Belfast in 1998. It has been valued and protected ever since by those of us who remember the terrible death and maiming that was brought on by the Troubles for three decades. The Good Friday Agreement is a piece...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (26 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: IDA Ireland was established under the Industrial Development Act 1993 on the 01stJanuary 1994. The Act also provided for the dissolution of Eolas and the Industrial Development Authority. The table below details Current and Capital Funding provided to IDA Ireland by my Department through the Revised Estimate Volumes for the years 1994 to 2023. The Department does not maintain records for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (26 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: Enterprise Ireland was established under the Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998 on the 23rdJuly 1998. The Act also provided for the dissolution of An Bord Tráchtála and Forbairt. The table below details Current and Capital Funding provided to Enterprise Ireland by my Department through the respective Revised Estimate Volumes for the years 1994 to 2023. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: They are facts.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (25 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: IDA Ireland has welcomed investments from South African companies across a number of key sectors, including Technology, Financial Services and Life Sciences. In that regard, there are currently 11 South African companies with FDI operations in Ireland, employing 202 people, including Investec, Aspen and OUTsurance. IDA Ireland has engaged with a number of South African companies and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (25 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: Regional development is at the centre of IDA Ireland’s strategy, with a target for half of all investments, that is 400, from 2021-2024 to go to regional locations outside Dublin. IDA is committed to the ongoing pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and maintaining high levels of investment across each region of the country. IDA Ireland’s property investment...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: Ireland is a leading centre for semiconductor technology and is home to over 100 semiconductor and communications companies, with over 25,000 people employed in the sector. We have a significant semiconductor design and fabrication history and a strong domestic and international semiconductor industry and R&D ecosystem. In the White Paper on Enterprisewhich my Department published...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Programme for Government (25 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: In their report on piloting Universal Basic Income, the Low Pay Commission noted that “the recommendations and guidelines in this report regarding how UBI might be piloted in Ireland should not be seen as an implicit endorsement of the concept of a UBI by the Low Pay Commission. The Low Pay Commission was not asked to evaluate the concept of a UBI. Nor was it asked to evaluate whether...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (25 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: Over the past 12 months, my Department has had three contracts with KPMG for consultancy services. The total value of the contracts (including VAT) is €79,799.33. Details of the projects and associated cost is set out below: 1. Retail Sector Study 2021 to identify likely future trends, opportunities and challenges facing the retail sector. (€49,077) 2. Midlands ICT Action Plan,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (20 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: My Department considers hiring external consultants in cases where there is not the necessary expertise to deliver the project in-house, in cases where an external assessment is deemed essential, or in cases where a project must be completed within a short time scale, and although the expertise or experience may be available in-house, performing the task would involve a prohibitive...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 213 and 214 together. There are currently 17 IDA client companies employing 2,020 people located in Kerry and over the past 9 years there has been a 21% growth in the number of people employed by IDA client companies in Kerry. In addition to the commitment to building a second Advanced Technology Building, in July 2022 IDA Ireland announced that it...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: As the Deputy will be aware, in 2018 Central Pharma took out a long-term lease on the Advanced Technology Building in Tralee. After some significant delays, I am informed that last year the company commenced business in Tralee providing warehousing for its first customers. However, the very latest information provided by the company is that they have one vacancy in Tralee since their...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: Deputy Paul Murphy's question is a fair one. The Government has given a commitment in this space and that needs to be followed through now. I will try to get the detail from the Minister for the Deputy. It is a fair question and many people are waiting for that detail. On the question on the 30% tax rate, this will be a topic of debate in the build-up to this year's budget. As the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: If I was to take that question I might be upsetting the plan here somehow, so I leave it to the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: I want to give a clear message that if someone has a political issue they want raised in terms of the availability of certain books and content within books, there are ways in which they can raise that without intimidating children and staff who are simply doing their job, normally linked to a local authority running library services that are fantastic across the country. My children use the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: I am familiar with the pressure CAMHS are under in my part of the country as well across Cork and Kerry. We have seen a significant recruitment effort to bring in the skillsets needed to help young people who need that help. In most cases funding is not the issue here. It is about getting the people we need and the challenges we face in recruiting people with the necessary skills that are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Simon Coveney: That is a very tragic case and I am more than familiar with many cases like that. That is why, from a homelessness perspective, the support the State needs to give is more than simply accommodation, though that is of course hugely important, but it is also about other support structures like healthcare, advice, counselling and supports for children too. We have dramatically increased the...