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Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The place of production is non-relevant and falls outside the remit of the knowledge development box scheme, as provided for in the Finance Act 2015.

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: What are we speaking to?

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The research and development must happen in Ireland. It must be new, novel and non-obvious. If that is the case, the applicant goes to the controller, gets a certificate and takes it to the Revenue Commissioners who will decide on the basis of that certificate if it is appropriate to grant the 6.25% KDB rate. The innovation must take place in Ireland. An applicant may get a certificate...

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: It has to be novel, useful and it has to be non-obvious. The KDB is different to a patent so the systems are different. The research and development activity has to take place here. If the research and development activity takes place outside the country, it will not be recognised here for KDB. On the question of whether it is novel or non-obvious, where a company redesigns or adds...

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: It is a question of whether it is new. If it is half made but the people involved come up with another idea that is innovative, non-obvious and useful and will change the machine or whatever they are developing, they can seek a KDB certificate for it. Is that okay?

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: It has nothing to do with production.

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The intention in section 17 is to impose a mandatory requirement on the controller to keep certain records. Records must be kept of all KDB applications, KDB certificates issued, KDB certificates refused and KDB applications under review. The section also requires the controller to respect confidential information filed with KDB applications and he, in this case, must not publicly disclose...

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the Senators for tabling amendments Nos. 5 to 9, inclusive, to section 18, which are being taken together. Section 18 requires the controller to report annually to the Minister on this scheme. Amendment No. 5 in the name of Senator Mac Lochlainn seeks that the report by the controller is to the Dáil instead of to the Minister. Amendment No. 6 in the name of Senators Higgins...

Seanad: Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I want to respond.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (14 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I refer further to parliamentary questions 271 to 273 of 8 December which my Department received late afternoon on 6 December. For the sake of clarity, my Department has not declined to provide the information sought by the Deputy. As explained in my response it was not possible to provide the extensive detail being sought by the Deputy in the limited time available for response. It...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have brought this to the attention of IDA Ireland, the State Agency under my Department with responsibility for foreign direct investment. The Agency is not aware of any such proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Expenditure (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I can advise the Deputy that the total photography costs incurred by my Department and its Offices since 9 March, 2011 are as follows: 2011 - €2,017 2012 - €4,100 2013 - €4,455 2014 - €4,534 2015 - €6,153 2016 (to date) – €4,130 The details for each year are set out in the following table. No expenditure for photography was incurred from...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consultancy Contracts Data (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The names of external reports commissioned by my Department and Offices of my Department, the costs, the date or expected date of publication and the name of the external consultants are set out below for the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and to 12th December 2016. In some cases, the costs of the reports were shared with other bodies and these are noted below.The data in respect of 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Relations Contracts Data (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My Department awards contracts and procurements based on the most economically advantageous tender and strives to ensure that all contracts or procurements offered provide the greatest value for money possible. Officers of my Department closely monitor these contracts for their full duration.My Department has entered into the following contracts with public relations companies since March...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Correspondence (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: ICT provision is made by my Department for the official business of Ministers to be conducted through official email accounts, and equipment is provided with appropriate security protocols to enable confidentiality to be maintained to the best standards possible and in so far as is possible within a challenging technological environment. There is no set policy in place regarding use of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: IDA Ireland maintains statistics in relation to site visits by potential investors on a county by county basis only. The latest data available shows that at the end of quarter three this year there were eight site visits by potential investors to County Tipperary. It is important to note, however, that data on site visits is not necessarily an accurate measure of the level of Foreign Direct...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The loss of jobs in Clonmel earlier this year was deeply regrettable. There is a clear need to create other employment opportunities in the region and both IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland are working hard with that goal in mind. As part of this work, IDA Ireland has developed a detailed brief on the former Suir Pharma facility which is helping to inform the Agency’s intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Prior to the announcement of the company closure in November 2015, IDA Ireland engaged with its management to try to find a way to retain the facility in the county. The company undertook then to work closely with IDA Ireland to find an alternative buyer for the site. While such a buyer has not yet been identified, the Agency continues to actively market the facility for new investors as a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Since the result of the UK Referendum in June, I have held an extensive series of meetings. I am a member of the Cabinet Committee on Brexit, which has met on 4 occasions. With regards to my own Department and its agencies, I have established a Co-ordination Group on Brexit, consisting of the CEOs of both IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, and relevant enterprise, single market and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: IDA Ireland collates data on site visits on a quarterly basis. In the first three quarters of 2016, there were 489 site visits countrywide. The breakdown of those visits by region and county is provided in the enclosed table, which also includes figures for 2015 for comparison. Data on site visits for the final quarter of 2016 will be available early next year. I want to stress that...