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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (7 Oct 2021)

Damien English: Ireland has a comprehensive body of employment legislation, in respect of which the Workplace Relations Commission is mandated to secure compliance. Ireland’s employment rights legislation protects all employees, including migrant workers, who are legally employed on a contract of service basis. This is specifically set out in Section 20 of the Protection of Employment (Part Time...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Oct 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: Employment Rights (7 Oct 2021)

Damien English: The European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 131 of 2003) apply to any transfer of an undertaking, business or part of a business from one employer to another employer as a result of a legal transfer (including the assignment or forfeiture of a lease) or merger. The main provisions of the Regulations provide that all the rights...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Damien English: We are ramping it up.

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Damien English: A lot of them will be completed. It is not true to say-----

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Damien English: I welcome the debate and the discussion. It is important. This is a topical issue for everybody and it affects the lives of most of the people we represent. I thank colleagues on all sides for their contributions. I give apologies for the absence of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who would have liked to have been a part of this debate. He is in Luxembourg at a meeting of the Environment...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Damien English: Within this overall competitive framework, the best long-term policy is, in our view, to support households with their energy costs through energy efficiency measures, with the Government providing a total retrofit budget in excess of €280 million for this year. There are long-term commitments in the national plan, setting out where we hope to go in the years ahead. We will continue...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Priorities (6 Oct 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...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (5 Oct 2021)

Damien English: I thank Senator O'Loughlin for raising this issue, which is something we have discussed quite a lot in recent weeks, mainly in this House. It has been raised with me quite regularly by the business community and the representative bodies we engage with in the various sectors. We have spent a great deal of time over the last couple of months engaging with various sectors and businesses that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Work Permits (5 Oct 2021)

Damien English: I thank the Senator again for raising the issue. I totally understand the difficulties that are out there because I have engaged with the sectors quite a lot. When I said we were prioritising medical staff I meant to point out that we prioritised permits for chefs as well because we understood that the sector was under an awful lot of pressure and that it was an essential service providing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 Oct 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: Farm Safety (5 Oct 2021)

Damien English: The Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee is an advisory committee to the Board of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA). As an advisory committee the Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee itself is not funded directly. Costs associated with the work of the Committee are contained within the overall budget of the HSA. At the beginning of the year, the HSA has estimated an...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (5 Oct 2021)

Damien English: The Restart Grant, subsequently the Restart Grant Plus, Scheme provided by my Department was introduced as part of the COVID-19 enterprise measures on foot of Government Decisions and operated by the 31 Local Authorities from May 2020 to October 2020. The Scheme was superseded as part of Budget 2021 by the COVID Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) operated by Revenue. As announced in June...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 Oct 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 (5 Oct 2021)

Damien English: The Employment Permits Section of my Department inform me that a total of 94,854 Employment Permits issued in the years 2015 to 2020 and to the 29th September 2021. As requested by the Deputy, a breakdown of these permits by Economic Sector for each year in question is provided below. Permits received between 2015 -29/09/2021 by Economic Sector ">Table

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (5 Oct 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: Court Judgments (30 Sep 2021)

Damien English: The information requested is being collated and will be sent to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (30 Sep 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 An Taoiseach: Work Permits (29 Sep 2021)

Damien English: The State's employment permit system is designed to supplement Ireland's skills and labour supply over the short to medium term by allowing enterprises to recruit 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...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Work Permits (29 Sep 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.  In order to maintain the relevance of these lists of occupations to the needs of the...