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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Renewable Energy Projects (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise 2025 sets out the potential to reach 2.180 million in employment and an overall unemployment rate of 6 percent by 2020. Based on a 2014 baseline, Enterprise 2025 envisages an additional 266,000 people in employment by 2020. This is based on the premise of export led growth and the additional indirect jobs stimulated by the activities of exporting enterprises in the wider economy....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: The eleventh formal round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations took place from the 19–23rOctober, 2015 and a summary of the state of play of the negotiations after that round is available on the European Commission’s website at . During this round, negotiators discussed all three pillars of the proposed agreement namely market access for EU and US...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Relations (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: The latest year for which full trade figures (goods and services) are available is 2014. These show that total trade between Ireland and Norway in 2014 amounted to €2.6 billion. This comprises €1.5 billion in exports and €1.1 billion in imports. Details are set out below. In 2014, goods exports to Norway amounted to €320 million while services exports amounted...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ State support service for micro and small businesses in each local area. The LEOs provide advice and direction, covering all government supports and requirements, to anyone who wishes to start or expand a business. They can also provide funding for projects that meet certain criteria, generally with regard to export...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise Ireland recently reported the creation of 21,118 new jobs by client companies in 2015. This translates into a net increase of 10,169 jobs for 2015 (taking account of job losses) in Enterprise Ireland supported businesses and brings total employment in these companies to 192,223 - a record high for the agency. Almost two thirds of the new jobs created were outside Dublin and all...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise Ireland recently reported the creation of 21,118 new jobs by client companies in 2015. This translates into a net increase of 10,169 jobs for 2015 (taking account of job losses) in Enterprise Ireland supported businesses and brings total employment in these companies to 192,223 - a record high for the agency. Almost two thirds of the new jobs created were outside Dublin and all...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Jobs Data (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 to 212, inclusive, together. IDA client companies created 18,983 new jobs nationwide in 2015, with the total number of those employed directly by IDA client companies at 187,056, the highest number ever recorded. Overall there was a net employment increase of 11,833, the highest level of job creation in over a decade. Cavan and Monaghan are promoted as...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise Ireland does not capture details relating to the closures of companies in the form required by the Deputy. Companies leave the Enterprise Ireland portfolio for a number of reasons and are therefore not captured by their surveys. Where the Agency has an investment or where there is a grant liability involved, this is followed up as appropriate through any receivership process....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Support Services (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Since the Action Plan for Jobs process was started in early 2012, well over 1300 discrete actions have been implemented to support and sustain existing jobs and to create new employment opportunities. That said, there are always going to be companies who experience difficulties for a range of different reasons, and in that event, there are a range of supports and protections available for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Support Services (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Since the Action Plan for Jobs process was started in early 2012, well over 1300 discrete actions have been implemented to support and sustain existing jobs and to create new employment opportunities. That said, there are always going to be companies which experience difficulties for a range of different reasons, and in that event, there are a range of supports and protections available for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Appointments to State Boards Data (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Bruton: Since 9 March 2011, I have made 158 appointments to the Boards of Agencies under my Department’s remit. Of these 90 were within my discretion. 40 were as a result of a nomination process and 28 were by virtue of the office held and were not appropriate, therefore, for public advertisement. Of the 90 appointments made within my discretion, 54 applied through an advertised process....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The issue of a company’s domicile for tax reasons does not come within the remit of my Department. It would therefore not be possible for me to make any specific arrangements with Microsoft and I obviously have not done so. The IDA’s engagement with this company does not include a condition that they utilise a specific packaging supplier based in Ireland. Moreover, it would...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a county-by-county basis only. From 2011 to 2015 there were a total of 94 visits – as set out in the attached table – by potential investors to Counties Louth, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan. As Enterprise Ireland’s core focus is supporting the internationalisation of indigenous companies, it does not...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Minimum Wage (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: At all times the Governments policy choices are considered in the context of the impact on jobs. This is at the heart of the Action Plan for Jobs process and has been a central feature of successive Budgets and The Pathways to Work programme. This level of policy focus has helped create an environment where 135,000 extra people are at work compared to when the first Action Plan for Jobs was...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Funding (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: Under the IDA Ireland Strategy entitled “Winning” announced on 25 February 2015, it was proposed that one of the new planned Advanced Building Solutions would be on the IDA Dundalk Business and Technology Park. The design and planning process commenced in Quarter 4 2015 and the building is due for completion Quarter 1 2017. The total amounts of payments made by IDA Ireland to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a county-by-county basis only. From 2011 to 2015, there were a total of 128 visits by potential investors to County Galway. The year-by-year breakdown is set out in the following table.It is important to note that data on site visits is not an accurate measure of the level of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) activity in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a county-by-county basis only. Since 2011 there were a total of 1,969 IDA Ireland sponsored site visits by potential investors to various locations throughout the country. The following table sets out, on a county-by-county basis, the number of IDA Ireland sponsored site visits for each year from 2011 to 2015. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ State support service for micro and small businesses in each local area. They provide advice and direction, covering all government supports and requirements, to anyone who wishes to start a new business or expand an existing one. The LEOs provide funding for projects primarily in the manufacturing and internationally...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Consultancy Contracts Data (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: The names of external reports commissioned by my Department and Offices of my Department, the costs, the date of commission, 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 26 January 2016. The data in respect of 2014 includes research and analysis which was commissioned by Forfás prior...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Inquiries (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: No tribunals of inquiry, commissions of inquiry or investigations have been established under the aegis of my Department since 1991 to date.