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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Statutory Instruments (6 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: A provisional list of Statutory Instruments that may be brought forward by my Department during the first six months of 2025 is set out in tabular form below. The table includes two columns outlining whether the Statutory Instruments are concerned with the transposition or implementation of EU law, or with the commencement of existing legislation. As some of the Statutory Instruments are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (6 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024. Cavan County Council paid out over €3 million in 2,263 grants to businesses under ICOB, including first and second payments. In addition, 824 grants were approved by Cavan County Council under Power Up, totalling just under €3.3m. Monaghan County Council paid...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Data Centres (5 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Data centres are critical infrastructure for our modern economy. They are a key part of our value proposition for foreign direct investment and central to Ireland’s economic and digital future. In addition to their direct value, data centres anchor other very valuable investment in Ireland. Furthermore, the supply chain expertise that has been developed by indigenous enterprise around...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (5 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Workday established a presence in Ireland via acquisition in 2008 when it acquired Cape Clear, a Dublin based software company. Employment has increased from the initial 25 employed in Cape Clear in 2008 to over 2,000 today, drawn from 67 different countries. The Dublin office has become Workday’s EMEA HQ with enterprise technical support, sales/marketing, HR, legal, real estate and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Státseirbhís (5 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Tá thart ar 1400 ball foirne ag mo Roinn agus tá a cuid oifigí agus gníomhaireachtaí curtha san áireamh. Cé nach féidir liom leibhéal na mball foirne atá inniúil sa Ghaeilge a dheimhniú go cruinn, tuigim go bhfuil roinnt ball foirne ann a thug faoi chúrsaí staidéar a bhí maoinithe ag an Roinn chun go mbeadh siad...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (5 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: The Government recognises that there have been cost developments for firms in recent years, arising from both the wider inflationary trends – particularly energy costs – as well as Government mandated changes in the form of improvements to working conditions across a range of areas including progress towards introducing a living wage, auto-enrolment retirement savings scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: The availability of suitable property and strategic sites is a critical component of the regional value proposition and can be the key differentiator in investment decisions in the regions from both new and existing clients as well as clients of Enterprise Ireland and the LEOs. IDA Ireland in partnership with Tipperary County Council have lodged planning for a proposed 10,000 sq.m....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes have paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. Both schemes are now closed. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Ireland’s enterprise policy, as set out in the Government’s White Paper on Enterprise and is a key focus of the work of my Department and our Agencies. In that regard, under its new strategy, Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation 2025-2029, IDA Ireland is targeting over half of all investments to regional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: The multiplier effect refers to the way that spending in one part of the economy can have a knock-on effect, contributing to activity in other parts of the economy. For the hospitality sector, this effect can be significant, as the sector tends to rely relatively more on local businesses and workers. Hospitality firms are significant local employers. As of Q4 2024, approximately 184,400...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Standards Authority of Ireland (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Peter Burke): The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) is an agency of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. In addition to its functions in legal metrology and standards, the NSAI also offers certification services for In Vitro Devices, under EU’s In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations (2017/746). Under the Regulations,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail and beauty sectors in order to receive the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland has been working closely with Roche, since their decision to close the Clarecastle facility in 2015. IDA Ireland had actively marketed the site through its extensive overseas network to both existing and new investors as a going concern which unfortunately yielded no offers. Roche has commenced remediation works at the site which represents a significant investment in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 223 and 224 together. In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes have paid out over €400 million to SMEs right across the country. Both schemes are now closed. In order to get payments to businesses before the end of 2024, the Power Up grant was aligned with the ICOB scheme and a business must have received the second ICOB grant and be in the hospitality, retail or...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The need for collaboration across government when it comes to removing barriers for the participation of people with disabilities, including accessing freely chosen employment, is widely acknowledged. Officials from my department have been fully engaged with officials in both the Department of Children, Disability and Equality and the Department of Social Protection in the development of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (27 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I am fully committed to progressing work on this and I have already directed work to begin on the design of a voluntary Code of Practice with the aim of encouraging employers to hire people with disabilities. Some businesses and state agencies already have best practice procedures in place and I believe there is significant potential for the sharing of best practice procedures, approaches to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Strategies (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: The Life Sciences sector is a cornerstone of Ireland’s economic success, accounting for over 80,000 jobs and over €100 billion in exports according to recent figures. It is also a key sector attracting foreign and indigenous investments in R&D and significant capital expenditure. Ireland has developed a cohesive and integrated Life Sciences cluster consisting of highly...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 and 117 together. In total, the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) and Power Up grant schemes paid out over €400 million in 2024. There are no further payments to be made to businesses in Cavan or Monaghan, all approved eligible businesses have been paid the ICOB and Power Up grants. While both ICOB and Power Up are now closed, there may be a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (26 Feb 2025)

Peter Burke: Data on site visits is available on a county basis and I am advised by IDA that there were two IDA-facilitated site visits to County Laois in 2024. The IDA also highlighted to me that site visits are only one measure of a company’s interest in a particular location and may not necessarily be a true measure of the overall level of foreign direct investment (FDI) activity in a region or...