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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Legal Aid policy is a policy matter solely for my colleague, the Minister for Justice. I understand that legal aid is not currently available for employment rights disputes. The employment rights enforcement frameworks have been designed to deliver a fair, simple, cost effective and user-friendly service for employers and employees in the State. Parties availing of the adjudication...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Enterprise Ireland has worked closely with the National Disability Authority on the issue of disability and is committed to providing inclusive services and promoting awareness of entrepreneurship to people with disabilities. The Senior Management Team in Enterprise Ireland has reviewed a draft version of the Disability Inclusion Strategy and is finalising year one actions. While the Strategy...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The SBASC was introduced to help businesses not eligible for the Government’s COVID Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) and the Fáilte Ireland Business Continuity grant or other direct sectoral grant schemes. The Scheme was launched on 9th March 2021 through the Local Authorities, with a closing date of 21st April for applications for Q1 2021. As you know it was recently announced...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Trading Online Voucher Scheme offers a 50% co-funded voucher of up to €2,500 to help businesses, which have been trading for at least 6 months, to develop their online trading capability and includes training sessions that cover various topics, including developing a website, digital marketing, social media for business and search engine optimisation. This Trading Online...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The financial support the Government is providing small businesses and workers affected by the pandemic is unprecedented. These supports include the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and the Employment Wage Subsidy (EWSS). Support for business includes the weekly Covid Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) of payment for businesses forced to close their doors to the public, the Small Business...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Section 12A is the emergency provision of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 which effectively suspends an employee’s entitlement to claim redundancy from their employer following certain periods of lay-off or short time work due to Covid-19. This suspension has recently been extended to 30th September 2021. This was a difficult decision, and I am aware that many employees are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Employment Permits scheme is vacancy led and driven by the changing needs of the labour market, expanding and contracting in tandem with its inherent fluctuations. The system is managed through the critical skills and ineligible occupations lists, which are subject to twice yearly evidence-based review. The Critical Skills Employment Permit (CSEP) is Ireland’s premium permit....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Services (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: Non-EEA nationals are required by law to hold a valid work permit or a visa which grants them permission to work in the State. Employment permit holders have exactly the same protections under Irish employment law as any other worker in the State and many of the criteria associated with the employment permits system are aimed at ensuring that migrant employees are treated in line with Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: All workers, regardless of the sector of the economy in which they work, are covered by the provisions of the Work Safely Protocol. The Work Safely Protocol is a revision of the Return to Work Safely Protocol, first published in May 2020. The revised Protocol incorporates the most up-to-date advice on relevant Public Health measures and reflects new knowledge and better understanding of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: All workers, regardless of the sector of the economy in which they work, are covered by the provisions of the Work Safely Protocol. The Work Safely Protocol is a revision of the Return to Work Safely Protocol, first published in May 2020. The revised Protocol incorporates the most up-to-date advice on relevant Public Health measures and reflects new knowledge and better understanding of...

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

Damien English: The Trading Online Voucher Scheme offers a 50% co-funded voucher of up to €2,500 to help businesses, which have been trading for at least 6 months, to develop their online trading capability and includes training sessions that cover various topics, including developing a website, digital marketing, social media for business and search engine optimisation. This Trading Online...

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

Damien English: Following receipt of an application I made, the Labour Court placed on its website a notice of intention to hold an inquiry into an application to establish an Early Years Service Joint Labour Committee pursuant to section 38 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1946.  A remote hearingtook place on Friday 28th May 2021 and was open to the public. Section 39 of the 1946 Act as...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Vaccination Programme (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: From the outset of Covid-19, many employers have taken the initiative in line with subsequent requests from the Government to be as flexible and as accommodating as possible with their staff.  Employers have a general duty of care towards their workers and that care is often expressed in the form of understanding, compromise and flexibility. COVID-19 vaccinations are an extremely...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: As you are aware the Government has put in place a comprehensive package to help businesses and workers during the pandemic, including the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP), the COVID-19 Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS), the small business assistance scheme for COVID (SBASC), low-cost loans, the deferral and warehousing of tax liabilities and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The second phase of the small business assistance scheme for COVID (SBASC) will be open for applications from early June, with a closing date of 21st July.  Local Authorities will once again be administering this scheme. 

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: The Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 sets out the key parameters around the taking of annual leave and payment of same.  The terms and conditions of individual employment contracts may provide additional specifics within those parameters such as stipulations in relation to the entitlement to extra days' leave above what is statutorily required by the Act. Section 19 of the Act...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: A significant package of tax and expenditure measures to build the resilience of the economy and to help vulnerable but viable businesses across all sectors was introduced in Budget 2021. Government acknowledges the importance of ongoing supports such as the Employee Wage Subsidy Scheme and Covid-19 Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) to businesses and the role played by grant schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Court (27 May 2021)

Damien English: I am statutorily required to give due consideration on whether it is appropriate to give effect to a recommendation from the Labour Court concerning a proposal for an Employment Regulation Order. In considering whether it was appropriate to accept the Labour Court's recommendation, I wanted to ensure that workers and employers in the sector have adequate notice of the changes to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (25 May 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. In exercising that competence at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the European Commission engages with Member States, including Ireland, through a variety of Committee...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (25 May 2021)

Damien English: The ratification of ILO Convention C190 is a matter of priority for Ireland and we continue to work towards being amongst the first ILO member States to ratify, with plans to progress the ratification this year. The issue of ratification by Ireland of International Labour Organisation Convention 190, Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work, is being considered in the...