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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Local Enterprise Offices, LEOs, are the first-stop-shop for providing advice, guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their business. The LEOs can offer direct grant aid to micro-enterprises (up to 10 employees) in the manufacturing and internationally traded services sector which, over time, have the potential to develop into strong export...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 575 to 578, inclusive, together.  The Action Plan for Jobs, one of the government’s chief instruments to support job creation, is a whole of Government, national level initiative aimed at creating the optimum conditions for private sector and export led job creation. The plan does not deal with actions on a county by county basis but does contain...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Brexit has been on our radar for a number of years and we have been planning accordingly. In order for me, as Minister with responsibility for supporting business across all sectors, to develop initiatives to support businesses that are impacted by Brexit, I need to fully understand business needs and to understand the various scenarios that may confront us. In this regard, my...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 580 and 581 together. It is important to remember that companies choose to invest in Ireland for many reasons.  Notwithstanding worldwide geopolitical challenges, the European market remains amongst the largest and richest in the world. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) remains a vital contributor to Ireland’s economic development...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: European competition policy is developed from two central rules set out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Article 101 of the Treaty prohibits anticompetitive agreements and practices between two or more independent market operators such as cartel behaviour, which may involve price-fixing and/or market sharing. Article 102 of the Treaty prohibits the abuse of a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am well aware of the shifting and evolving global challenges which may affect trade and investment in the future.  Understanding the needs of business in their drive to succeed is and will continue to be fundamental to Ireland’s economic success and especially in these times of global challenge. No open economy like ours can be fully shielded against global impacts.  I...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protected Disclosures Data (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My Department is committed to fostering an appropriate environment for addressing concerns and supporting workers in speaking out about potential wrongdoing in the workplace.  The Department’s Protected Disclosures policy outlines the process in place for dealing with protected disclosures under the Protected Disclosure’s Act 2014.  The policy provides, inter...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The LEOs will continue to provide a range of supports for the micro and small business sector in 2017 and beyond. As the “first-stop-shop” for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business, the LEOs will: - Provide a sign-posting service to all relevant State supports - Offer direct grant aid to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: American investment is very important to Ireland’s economic well-being. The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) here, accounting for over 70% of the country’s total FDI. Approximately 680 US corporations employ 135,000 people directly in a broad range of sectors. It is difficult to predict what policy changes may be introduced by the new US...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Insurance Costs (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: State indemnity for personal injury and third party property damage is set out in the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act, 2000 where the management of personal injury underlying risks, and third party property damage claims against certain State authorities, is delegated to the National Treasury Management Agency.  When performing these functions, the Agency is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Irish State’s general policy is to promote the sourcing of labour and skills needs from within the workforce of Ireland, the European Union and other EEA states.  Policy in relation to applications for employment permits remains focused on facilitating the recruitment from outside the EEA of highly skilled personnel, where the requisite skills cannot be met by normal...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The following tables provide the requested breakdown for each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Table 1: 2014 County Amount CARLOW 1 CORK 3 DUBLIN 21 GALWAY 3 KERRY 4 KILDARE 1 LIMERICK 1 WATERFORD 2 WESTMEATH 1 Table 2: 2015 County Amount CARLOW 2 CORK 11 DUBLIN 42 GALWAY 10 KERRY 2 LIMERICK 5 LOUTH 6 KILDARE 1 MAYO 1 TIPPERARY 1 WICKLOW 4 Table 3: 2016 County...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Regulation (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The General Scheme of the Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill was approved by Government on 17 January 2017 and published on 16 February 2017.   Head 167 of that Scheme proposes to amend section 343 of the Companies Act 2014. Section 343 obliges companies to make an annual return to the Companies Registration Office.  Companies have a period of 9 months from the end of their...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the “first-stop-shop” for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business at local level. The LEOs: - provide a sign-posting service to all relevant State supports - offer direct grant aid to micro-enterprises (up to 10 employees) in the manufacturing and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Guarantee Scheme (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Credit Guarantee Schemes (the original made in 2012, and another in 2015) were operated on behalf of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation by Capita Asset Services for the first 4 years of its existence and, on 17 October 2016, the role of Operator was assumed by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) on behalf of the Minister. As of 24thFebruary 2017, SBCI advises...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Aid (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: As part of a comprehensive State Aid Modernisation Reform, on 18 December 2013 the European Commission adopted Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid. The Regulation, which sets the de minimis threshold at €200,000 over a three year fiscal period, entered into force on 1 January...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (28 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have arranged for the company's information to be sent to IDA Ireland. The Deputy may also advise the company that he can contact the Agency directly should he wish to do so.

Other Questions: IDA Data (23 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I will take on board the issue raised by Deputy Smith and will talk to the IDA about the data centre. In response to Deputy Broughan, I have met the Fingal county manager, Mr. Paul Reid, to discuss development issues in Fingal. He sits on the Dublin regional action plan for jobs, which is an important driver of growth in north Dublin. I am very aware of the five business parks and...

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (23 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I hear the Deputy. She knows that I have met the Cavan and Monaghan groups and the Deputies from the area. The figures from the IDA are not great but in Monaghan there are 5,168 jobs supported by Enterprise Ireland. That is also an agency under my aegis. There are 903 jobs supported by the Local Enterprise Offices, LEOs. It is the same kind of story in Cavan where there are 1,162 LEO...

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (23 Mar 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I hear exactly what the Deputy is saying but we do have a north-east, north-west action plan. We have a plan to make sure that jobs are created, whether they are IDA jobs, which I would like to see more of, or Enterprise Ireland jobs, LEO jobs or InterTradeIreland jobs. Just to put it on the record, there were actually 2,339 jobs created by InterTradeIreland in 2016. One of the key actions...