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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (21 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: Under Stream 2 of the Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme which was launched in October 2022, of the total number of 76 application packs issued by Enterprise Ireland, to date one application has been returned. The response to Stream 2 reflects that a significant number of companies requested application packs, but they have not yet been converted into application forms mainly due to companies...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (21 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Table below provides the relevant data sought on the number of senior principal scientific officers and senior executives in global procurement working for Enterprise Ireland in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 - As at 1st July 2021 As at 1st July 2022 Current Senior Principal Scientific Officers 0 0 0 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Closures (21 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: Where Enterprise Ireland's assessment of the value of investments is nil, due to insolvency or otherwise, those investments are written off. Over the last five years Enterprise Ireland has had to write off €47,013,327.16 of equity investments in 257 of their clients due to those businesses being dissolved, entering receivership or being liquidated. The following Table provides the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (21 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 and 145 together. I have not had any engagement or received any correspondence on this matter, but I appreciate that this is a difficult situation for those workers affected. Statutory and contractual employment terms apply in relation to the payment of wages. Failure to pay all or part of the wages due to an employee is considered an unlawful deduction...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: The applications submitted in respect of the Employment Permits in the details supplied were returned to the applicant following an initial pre-check, as discrepancies were identified in the Labour Market Needs Test and the application form. As the applications concerned were not formally accepted for processing, the returns are not considered to be refusals. The applicant has been advised to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: The role of horticultural worker is subject to a quota of 1,000 permits. There are currently 73 permits remaining in this quota. Once the quota for horticulture workers has been filled, no new permits will issue in respect of this role. A checklist document has been prepared to assist applicants when applying for a General Employment Permit specifically for the role of a horticultural worker...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (15 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: My Department officials have consulted with Enterprise Ireland and I can confirm that no data centres have been granted assistance under the Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme. To date no data centres have applied for assistance under the Scheme.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I can confirm that my Departmental colleague, Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, recently received correspondence from the Minister for Social Protection concerning a communication from the EU Commission about the addition of COVID-19 to the list of reportable occupational diseases. A reply issued to the Minister for Social Protection in early February. In...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health Services Staff (9 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing the recruitment of 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 critical skills and ineligible occupation...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Arts Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am taken by some of the Deputy's comments. It is important to assure the House that the Government is committed to youth arts, particularly in the context of Creative Youth, which is one of five pillars of the Creative Ireland programme. Creative Youth is being implemented by, and is focused through, the Department of the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin. She is the Minister putting her...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Arts Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I am responding on behalf of his party colleague and my constituency colleague, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin. I was very touched by the Deputy's contribution and I am very well aware that this is a personal passion of his as well as something he is bringing forward on behalf of his...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I am taking this debate on behalf of the Minister. I genuinely thank the Deputy for raising this matter. At the outset, I will take the opportunity to set out the context for what is an extremely important issue which many people have become familiar with over recent days and weeks. The disabled persons maintenance allowance constituted a weekly allowance paid by health boards to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I go back to the Deputy's initial contribution. It is important to note, as the Attorney General points out in his report, that it is sometimes tempting to resort to generic stereotypes about the State being in some way unfair to its citizens when they are deprived of a benefit and bring legal proceedings challenging this deprivation, and that the logic behind such a perspective suggests...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defence Forces (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I thank both Senator Joe O'Reilly and the Acting Chair for their welcome. This is the fourth or fifth time I have been back in the Seanad in recent weeks, but it is always a pleasure and I hope to be here many more times to engage with Senator Joe O'Reilly and the Acting Chair, and Senator Gavan, who is awaiting the next Commencement matter. We all soldiered here together for a good four...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defence Forces (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I assure the Senator that he will have those figures as soon as is humanly possible, but that does not take away from the overall response. There are two other areas to underline our agreed position on this. A high-level action plan setting out the Government's response to the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces was approved and a high-level steering board, chaired by the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: Sick Leave Act 2022 commenced on 1st January 2023, and introduced a new statutory right to employer-paid sick leave. This Act will provide protection to employees who do not currently have employer-paid sick pay schemes, many of whom are low-paid and cannot afford to miss work. As a starting point, this scheme will cover the three waiting days before eligibility for Illness Benefit from the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ambulance Service (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Organisation of Working Time Act (OWTA) 1997 transposed the original EU Working Time Directive (Directive 93/104/EC) – now consolidated by EU Directive 2003/88/EC – into Irish law. The EU Working Time Directive is primarily a health and safety directive and its purpose is to lay down common minimum safety and health requirements for organising the working time of employees...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: The Intra-Company Transfer Employment Permit is designed to facilitate the transfer of senior management, key personnel or trainees who are non-EEA nationals from an overseas branch of a multinational corporation to its Irish branch. The main attraction of this permit is that it facilitates the temporary injection of corporate personnel and also provides for such employees to stay on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Healthcare Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: I can confirm that my Departmental colleague, Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, recently received correspondence from the Minister for Social Protection concerning the communication from the EU Commission about the addition of COVID-19 to the list of reportable occupational diseases. A reply has issued to the Minister for Social Protection outlining that the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Pension Provisions (2 Feb 2023)

Neale Richmond: There is no statutory retirement age for employees in Irish legislation, apart from for certain public sector employees where statutory retirement ages may apply. A contract of employment will generally contain a retirement age, but this is a matter of contract between the parties. Under Irish legislation an employer is permitted to set a retirement age as long as it is objectively and...