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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1652 and 1653 together. My Department, through IDA Ireland, has worked closely with the company on this proposed project since September 2014. This included the provision of different supports to the company, including Research and Development financial assistance. This led to the announcement, in January 2016, that a technology development facility...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Details of the number of staff paid through the Department’s payroll for the period 2007 to 2015, inclusive, are outlined in the tables below. The details include the gross pay for all staff of the Department, its Offices and Ministerial private staff. The Deputy will see that the tables set out the employee count for each of the requested pay bands. The employee count represents the...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Employment Permits Section of my Department received an application for a new Critical Skills Employment Permit for the person (details provided) on 2nd November 2016. All applications for Employment Permits are dealt with on an individual basis and are processed in accordance with the Employment Permits Act 2006, as amended, which sets out in legislation the criteria in relation to...

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: IDA Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I understand that the Deputy is referring to the EU Directive on Transparency of Grants. Under this Directive, new EU transparency rules for state aid became effective from 1 July 2016 with requirements that relevant information be published on the EU State Aid Competition Transparency Public Search database. IDA Ireland is in full compliance with the Directive and all relevant information...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: There is no denying that American investment is very important to Ireland’s economic well-being. The US is the largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) here, accounting for over 70% of the country’s total overseas investment. Approximately 140,000 people in Ireland are also directly employed by US companies. As regards the policies of the new US...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In 2015, Enterprise Ireland created 21,118 new jobs resulting in a net gain of 10,169 jobs across the country. 2,099 jobs were created in the border regions. I launched Enterprise Ireland’s 2016 end of year results on Monday, 9 January 2017. In 2016, Enterprise Ireland supported companies employed 201,108 people. Within this, 19,244 new jobs were created resulting in a net gain of...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: An application for the renewal of a General Employment Permit for the person referred to by the Deputy was received on 4th October 2016. Having considered all the available information, a decision to refuse to grant an employment permit issued on 18th November 2016. The reasons therein included that it appeared from information submitted that the foreign national did not receive the annual...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: IDA Ireland maintains statistics in relation to site visits by potential investors on a quarterly basis. Since 2010 to the end of quarter 3 in 2016 there were a total of 92 IDA sponsored site visits to counties Louth, Meath, Monaghan and Cavan. The table below sets out the breakdown by county of these visits. Data on site visits for quarter 4 2016 will be available shortly. It is important...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Company Law Review Group (CLRG) is a statutory expert body that reviews and advises me on company law matters. I set the work programme in consultation with the CLRG at least once in every two years under section 961 of the Companies Act 2014. The current CLRG work programme runs from the beginning of June 2016 to the end of May 2018 and work on these matters is ongoing. A copy of the...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Employment Permits Section of my Department received an application for a General Employment Permit on 5th January 2017 for the foreign national as detailed in the attachment. Applications are assessed strictly by date of receipt of fee and current processing date for applications relating to non-trusted partner employers is 7th November 2016. The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Neither my Department nor IDA Ireland has provided any assistance of any kind to the foreign company referred to by the Deputy.

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: As a small open economy, Ireland operates in an environment of continuous and fast-paced change globally – and has done for decades. In today’s increasingly inter-connected world, geopolitical, technological and financial forces that happen elsewhere have implications for Ireland’s economic growth. Competition to attract FDI has intensified significantly, and all FDI is...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My Department originally published the draft Scheme of a comprehensive Consumer Rights Bill for public consultation on 25 May 2015. Part 5 of the draft Scheme proposes to strengthen consumer protection against unfair terms, including removing the exemption for negotiated terms, narrowing the scope of the terms exempt from assessment for unfairness, and expanding the list of contract terms...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (16 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Government is acutely conscious of the uncertainty created by Brexit and the need to consider the types of supports that Irish businesses require to address the negative implications of Brexit and maintain their competitiveness. The UK vote has led to uncertainty in our trading relationships with the UK, resulting in large part from a degree of volatility in the Euro/Sterling exchange...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Strategy (16 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To drive the export led growth strategy, the Government through Enterprise Ireland is focused on a two key priorities to: - intensify its work with clients to maintain and grow UK exports and extend their reach into international markets, - reinforce the competitiveness of clients with ambition by strengthening their productivity, innovation and management capability to become more...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (16 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The capital allocations made to Enterprise Ireland through my Department’s Vote for 2016 and 2017 are set out in the following table: Estimates Amount 2016 Revised Estimates Volume €173.6 million 2017 Revised Estimates Volume €185.0 million Total Exchequer Capital Provision to Enterprise Ireland through the Department’s Vote in 2016- 17 €358.6 million...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consumer Protection (16 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: On the basis of the details provided by the Deputy, the seller in this case would appear to be in breach of the delivery obligations applying to consumer contracts under section 29 of the Sale of Goods Act 1893 as amended by Regulation 30 of the European Union (Consumer Information, Cancellation and Other Rights) Regulations 2013. Where a seller fails to deliver goods in accordance with...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (16 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Statistics on total numbers of jobs created are collected by the CSO at a national and regional level, and on a quarterly basis. The most up-to-date CSO figures available show that 3,700 jobs were created across the Mid East region (Kildare, Meath and Wicklow) from end 2015 to end September 2016 and the unemployment rate within the region, at 6.9% at end September 2016, was also...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (16 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Regional development is a top priority of mine and will remain so in 2017. Increasing and sustaining foreign direct investment (FDI) for areas such as County Kildare forms a vital part of this. This Government’s commitment to regional development is reflected in IDA Ireland’s strategy for 2015-2019, which targets an increase of 30-40% in FDI in every region outside of...