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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Aid (19 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 314 and 315 together. EU Regulation No 1407/2013 (the de minimis Regulation) sets out the rules for granting small amounts of financial aid to enterprises which are unlikely to affect trade and distort competition (de minimis aid). Generally, public bodies are allowed to grant aid to a single undertaking of up to €200,000 over a 3 year...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (19 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: An extensive programme of engagement with all other EU Governments and the EU institutions, including the Commission’s Brexit Negotiations Task Force, is under way.  This engagement is being intensified in 2017. Since the UK referendum to leave the EU took place, I have met with a number of my European counterparts. In September I travelled to Brussels, where I had a series of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Investigations (18 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am interpreting the Deputy’s question as relating to the costs to the Exchequer of any ongoing statutory enquiries or investigations.  There have been no costs incurred by my Department in relation to ongoing statutory enquiries or investigations.

Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I welcome this debate. I heard the Deputy very clearly when he spoke about those over 50, 45% of whom felt discriminated against. A worse statistic was the 87% of respondents in one of the reports the Deputy cited who were looking for work. The Deputy mentioned the word "covert" and I have heard about it myself. We need as a society to recognise the valuable contribution our mature...

Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. He should note that policy responsibility for equality legislation, which covers discrimination on various grounds including age, rests with my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality. We have robust equality legislation in Ireland which protects people from discrimination on a range of grounds, including age. The...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1629 and 1654 together. IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a quarterly basis.  The latest data available covers the first three quarters of 2016 only, during which there were 489 site visits countrywide.  From the first quarter of 2009 until the third quarter of 2016 there were a total of 3,130...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (DJEI) is actively engaged on climate change policy as it pertains to the enterprise sector. This work can be split into two main areas: technical assistance and advice on the administration and proposed revisions to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and cross-Departmental work on the non-ETS climate change mitigation policies that will...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: As part of Budget 2017, I secured an additional €3 million pay allocation to help my Department and its Agencies to respond to the challenges associated with Brexit.  Each Agency’s pay ceiling also allows for some flexibility in re-aligning staffing resources to manage emerging challenges and priorities, such as those related...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Registered Employment Agreements (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: As I advised in response to a similar question on the issue last November, a High Court challenge to the validity of the Electrical Contracting Registered Employment Agreement (REA), as well as the constitutionality of the Industrial Relations Act 1946, the legislation underpinning the REA system, was successfully defended in 2010 by the State. The decision was appealed to the Supreme Court....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Given the wide range of the Local Enterprise Offices' remit, their engagement with their clients takes many forms: from drop-in visits; telephone calls; emails and meetings; to social media contacts via platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, among others. Data on the volume of all such client engagement is not currently available across the 31 individual LEOs. However, in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1634 and 1635 together. I understand that Probiotec Ltd, an Enterprise Ireland client, was acquired by LS Nutricare Ltd in September 2016. LS Nutricare Ltd is an Irish subsidiary of a Seychelles registered entity called the Lilium Stanley Group. Officials from Enterprise Ireland made contact with LS Nutricare Ltd in December 2016 in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The provision of property solutions for specific client companies is a day to day operational matter for the Agency. For reasons of commercial sensitivity and client confidentiality, IDA Ireland cannot provide details of its specific engagement with potential investors.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Legislative Measures (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1637 and 1638 together. Section 279 of the Companies Act 2014 provides that in limited cases for a particular transitional period, US Accounting Standards may be used by certain companies. This is conditional on compliance with Irish company law and is subject to the company meeting a number of qualifying criteria. Section 279 is due to expire on 31 December...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My Department is assisted in the delivery of its programmes by a number of offices and agencies. Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) all play a vital role in promoting and implementing policies which support enterprise growth and job creation. Enterprise Ireland has approximately 100 clients in County Wexford. Across the period 2015-2016 Enterprise Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Meetings (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Details of formal meetings with CEOs and Chairpersons of Agencies of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation are set out below: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) 12/10/2016 Meeting with Isolde Goggin, Chairperson Enterprise Ireland 15/09/2016 Meeting with Terence O'Rourke, Chairperson and Julie Sinnamon, CEO 08/12/2016 Meeting with Julie Sinnamon, CEO...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The question is understood to refer to projects being realised through funding disbursed by my Department or its agencies, the details of which have been the subject of announcements since January 2015 by way of a press release or similar announcement. Details are as follows: Agency Project Name Amount Approved Project Details Status at 31/12/16 Amount drawn down by 31/12/16 Reason for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Jobs Data (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: IDA Ireland’s Mid-West Region comprises Limerick, Clare and Tipperary North. All three counties have seen gains in FDI employment over each of the last three years. Total employment in IDA supported companies in the Mid-West at the end of 2016 stood at 17,143 people across 129 companies, up from 15,627 in 2015. Further details of jobs created, lost and total jobs are set out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Records (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The cost of storage and archiving files for my Department for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 is set out in tabular format below. Certain offices of my Department use State owned buildings for some offsite file storage at locations in Carlow and Mullingar. However, this is provided by the OPW at no cost to my Department. External file storage costs: Year € Total 2014 148,647.13...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Tipperary Town forms part of the IDA’s wider South East region, along with the remainder of Tipperary South and counties Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny. There are 73 client companies in the region, which collectively employ 14,403 people. A breakdown of this employment by county is set out in the table below. Abbott Ireland (1,176 people) and Boston Scientific (831 people)...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: IDA Ireland maintains statistics in relation to site visits by potential investors on a quarterly basis. The latest data available covers the first three quarters of 2016 only. Since 2010 to the end of quarter 3 in 2016 there were a total of 34 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to County Tipperary. It is expected that data on site visits for quarter 4 2016 will be...