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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: The performance of the import and export sectors has been significantly impacted over the last three years by both Brexit and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as we cautiously emerge from these necessary public health restrictions and global markets begin to open up again, the Government will continue to help businesses in their next phase of recovery and adaptation. My Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Immigration Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Ireland operates a managed employment permits system maximising the benefits of economic migration and minimising the risk of disrupting Ireland’s labour market. The regime acts 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. By design, it is vacancy led...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: As the Deputy is aware, the Government have provided a significant package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic. Under the new Economic Recovery Plan, a stimulus to fuel the economy of €4 billion was announced, this is intended to aid businesses and the economy to recover and rebuild. The Plan outlined changes to several of the current financial supports, the EWSS is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Food Industry (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Policy responsibility for the food production industry is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Food Wise 2025sets out a ten-year plan for the agri-food sector. It underlines the sector’s unique and special position within the Irish economy, and it illustrates the potential which exists for this sector to grow even further. The Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: The Government recognises the sacrifices business owners, employees and their families have made over the past 18 months in order to protect their community from COVID-19.As you are aware, the Government put in place a comprehensive package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic. The Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID-19 (SBASC), which is administered by the 31 local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: As the Deputy will be aware, the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future, has put a strong emphasis on achieving more balanced regional and community development. My Department plays a very strong part in implementing that policy goal through a variety of policy initiatives and investments in the regions, including ‘bottom-up’ approaches that engage directly with community,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Sep 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: Enterprise Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation is a key policy priority of mine and this Government. My Department is currently overseeing the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024. These are ‘bottom-up’ plans, developed by regional stakeholders which will identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job creation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: As the Deputy will be aware the public health response to COVID-19 is constantly monitored, including approaches to testing, contact tracing, outbreak management, surveillance and sequencing, and is under review in the context of planning for an overall transition in our approach to the management of COVID-19. This review will inform the development of a future public health response strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: The Government recognises the sacrifices business owners, employees and their families have made over the past 18 months in order to help protect their community from COVID-19.As you are aware, the Government put in place a comprehensive package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic. These business supports were unprecedented. The Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Regional enterprise development and sustainable local job creation is a key policy priority for me and this Government. My Department is currently overseeing the development of nine new Regional Enterprise Plans to 2024. These are ‘bottom-up’ plans, developed by regional stakeholders which will identify growth opportunities, recognise vulnerabilities, and enable job creation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: The Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment is responsible for ensuring that the legislative requirements for consultation and notification of potential redundancies to the Minister are complied with. The notifications do not reflect the total number of actual redundancies that take place across the workforce, since not all notified redundancies result in actual redundancies, as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Dublin Airport Authority (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: At the outset, I must emphasise that Ireland’s system of industrial relations is, essentially, voluntary in nature and responsibility for the resolution of industrial disputes between employers and workers, rests with the employer, the workers and their representatives. For its part, the State provides the industrial relations dispute settlement mechanisms i.e. the Workplace...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Policy responsibility for the Hospitality Sector is matter for my colleague, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media. The Tourism and Hospitality Careers Oversight Group, under the auspices of Fáilte Ireland, was established in 2019 to coordinate relevant bodies to agree and implement a work programme addressing labour supply and skills requirements in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 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 Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Except for the employment of close relatives and registered industrial apprentices, the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 applies to all individuals engaged under a contract of employment. Failure to pay the national minimum hourly rate of pay is a criminal offence, punishable upon summary conviction, by a fine not exceeding €2,500 or imprisonment not exceeding 6 months or both. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: In order to qualify for a statutory redundancy payment, an employee must have 104 weeks continuous employment, be an employed contributor in employment which was insurable for all benefits under the Social Welfare Acts and be over the age of 16. An eligible employee is entitled to two weeks statutory redundancy payment for every year of service, plus a bonus week. The redundancy lump sum...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Policy responsibility for food production, including meat processing, is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Food Wise 2025 sets out a ten-year plan for the agri-food sector. It underlines the sector’s unique and special position within the Irish economy, and it illustrates the potential which exists for this sector to grow even further....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Market (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: Policy responsibility for the food production is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Food Wise 2025 sets out a ten-year plan for the agri-food sector. It underlines the sector’s unique and special position within the Irish economy, and it illustrates the potential which exists for this sector to grow even further. The creation of 23,000...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: On 28 April 2021, I announced my intention to issue an Order to give effect to a statutory recommendation of the Labour Court concerning minimum rates of remuneration and other terms and conditions in the Security Sector. The Order was to apply from 1 September 2021. An ex-parte application to initiate legal proceedings challenging the underlying legislation in the High Court was lodged in...