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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Joint Labour Committees (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: In June of this year I made an Order establishing the Early Years’ Service Joint Labour Committee 2021. Following the making of the Order, a Chair and Deputy Chair to the JLC was appointed. This was done on the 8 July 2021. In accordance with the Fifth Schedule to the Industrial Relations Act 1990, the Court is required to appoint such number of employer representatives as it...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a standard application for a General Employment Permit for the person concerned (details supplied) was received on 30th September 2021. Applications for employment permits are dealt with in date order, as Employment Permits Section are currently processing standard applications received on 15th July 2021. Applicants can keep track...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Home Care Packages (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The State 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 intended to act as a conduit for key skills which are required to develop enterprise in the State for the benefit of our economy, while simultaneously protecting the balance of the labour market. The system...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: I wish to assure the Deputy at the outset that the Government is fully committed to ensuring the transposition of the Copyright Directive. The Directive will be transposed by way of the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021. Drafting is now at an advanced stage and intensive work is ongoing in order to ensure that the drafting is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: Further easing of restrictions took place on the 22nd of October with the extension of some non-pharmaceutical interventions. Important and necessary public health guidance currently in effect in relation to workplaces remains in place after the 22nd of October, with the general return to workplaces continuing to take place on a phased and cautious basis and for specific business...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The employment permits system is designed to facilitate the entry of appropriately skilled non-EEA nationals to fill skills and/or labour shortages, in circumstances where there are no suitably qualified Irish/EEA nationals available to undertake the work and that the shortage is a genuine one. The system is managed through the use of lists designating highly skilled and ineligible...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The employment permits system is managed through the operation of the critical skills and ineligible occupations lists which determine employments that are either in high demand or are ineligible for consideration for an employment permit and these lists are subject to twice-yearly evidenced based review. Since March 2020, my Department has implemented Covid-19 contingency arrangements...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: A revised Work Safely Protocol was published on the 22ndof October. The Work Safely Protocol supports employers and workers in adapting their workplace procedures and practices to put measures in place, in compliance with the COVID-19 related public health protection measures to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. The Protocol is a general document applicable to all...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Agreements (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The international Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) was signed by twenty-five EU Member States during Ireland’s EU Presidency in 2013, with a view to establishing the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The UPC is an international court set up by participating EU Member States to deal with the infringement and validity of Unitary Patents. To enter into force, the Agreement on a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The plan for the safe return to on-site activity for higher and further education for 2021/2022 academic year was published in September by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, each college would have prepared their own plans based on this. From the 18 May 2020 to the 22 October 2021, a total of 45,976 inspections assessing compliance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The Innovation Vouchers Programme is designed to build links between Ireland's public knowledge providers and small businesses and help to create a cultural shift in the small business community's approach to innovation. This action is about ensuring that the opportunities that the collaborative project habit engenders is available to the broadest number of companies. The €5,000...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Unfair Dismissals (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The Redundancy Payments Act 1967 outlines the circumstances whereby a redundancy situation occurs. It is a matter for the employer in the first instance to determine whether or not there is a redundancy situation. Disputes in this regard can be referred to the Workplace Relations Commission. An employee who is dismissed for any reason other than redundancy is not entitled to a statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The Budget allocation provided to Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices in Budget 2022, will be used to service existing programmes, as well as provide the scope to explore the potential for new schemes to address the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and Brexit. The Local Enterprise Offices can offer direct grant aid to microenterprises (10 employees or fewer) in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: Budget 2022 recognises that many businesses are in need of assistance as we continue to reopen the economy and society in general. My Department, working through our agency Enterprise Ireland and with the Local Enterprise Offices, is working with manufacturing and internationally traded services companies to help them stabilise, reset and recover. To date, for example, €238...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: Encouraging and promoting an enterprise culture is an important area of activity for Local Enterprise Offices. In seeking to develop a thriving enterprise culture, it is critical that young people from all backgrounds see enterprise as a viable career choice. The Local Enterprise Offices continue to reinforce entrepreneurship in the education system as a critical element in the future...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: As Irish enterprises continue to navigate the impact of both COVID-19 and Ireland’s new trading relationship with the UK, my Department’s focus continues to be on building a resilient enterprise base to sustain jobs and exports. Through our Agencies we continue to support and drive the creation of new enterprises in the indigenous sector nationally and in particular the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: Statutory redundancy entitlements are provided for in the Redundancy Payments Act 1967. Section 12A of the Act is the provision which temporarily suspended an employee’s entitlement to make a claim for redundancy following periods of lay-off or short time work as result of Covid-19. This provision expired on 30 September 2021 and the employee right has been reinstated. All other...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The State 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 intended to act as a conduit for key skills which are required to develop enterprise in the State for the benefit of our economy, while simultaneously protecting the balance of the labour market. The system...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: Universal and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable vaccines, diagnostics and treatments is crucial in the global fight against COVID-19. International Trade is a competence of the EU under the Treaties and in exercising that competence, the European Commission engages fully with the Member States, including Ireland, through a variety of Committees and Working Parties/Groups,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: As the Deputy will know policy responsibility for the live performance and nightlife sector is not within the remit of my Department. This sector is the responsibility of my colleague, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD. The final decision by Government on 19th of October, following NPHET advice in light of the high level of disease in...