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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: In 2014, the 31 Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) approved a total of €14.359m in grant assistance in respect of 850 projects by their client companies and a total of €10.932m was paid out to clients by the end of the year. Details of the amounts approved and paid by the individual LEOs in 2014 is set out in Table 1 below.In addition, the LEOs also awarded over €2m in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) was established on 1 October 2015.Part of its functions comprises visiting employment premises and inspecting employer records with a view to determining compliance with employment rights legislation. These inspections arise - In response to complaints received of alleged non-compliance with relevant employment rights legislation; - As part of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Services Staff (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Workplace Relations Commission was established on 1 October 2015.Part of its functions comprises visiting employment premises and inspecting employer records with a view to determining compliance with employment rights legislation. These inspections arise - In response to complaints received of alleged non-compliance with relevant employment rights legislation; - As part of compliance...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Enterprise Ireland Innovation Voucher Initiative was introduced in 2007 in order to drive an on-going innovation culture shift within small enterprise by promoting and encouraging knowledge transfer between Ireland’s public knowledge providers and the small business community and creating greater synergies between the two. Under the initiative, vouchers worth €5,000 are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: As of 28th September 2015 Microfinance Ireland (MFI) has approved 683 applications to the value of €10.5m supporting 1,554 jobs.In parallel with this initiative, a series of other non-bank Government backed funding sources for SMEs have been provided. These measures, in tandem with the many other actions contained in the annual Action Plan for Jobs process, have helped an extra 125,000...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise Ireland offers a range of financial and non-financial supports to assist clients to win business and sustain and create jobs through all stages of the business development cycle. Start-ups remain a key source of employment for the Irish economy and over time many start-ups will develop and grow and emerge as the medium and large sized companies of the future. Supporting Start-ups...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Development Capital Scheme (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Development Capital Scheme which is run through an open and competitive process, on foot of key actions under the APJ process has seen total commitments by the State of €75m to three funds. Under the Scheme, commitments were made to MML, BDO and Cardinal Carlyle that will provide equity or quasi equity of between €2m and €12m to established investee companies.In...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Seed Capital Scheme (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: Successive Governments have invested in the domestic venture capital sector over the last twenty years. This investment has sought to increase the availability of risk capital for SMEs to support economic growth through the continued development of the Seed and Venture Capital industry in Ireland, thereby achieving a more robust, commercially viable and sustainable sector.In parallel with...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Grant Payments (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: Innovation Fund Ireland is a Government initiative designed to attract leading international venture capital fund managers to Ireland to compliment the domestic venture capital sector. Innovation Fund Ireland funding involved Enterprise Ireland and NPRF investing together and separately. The NPRF has now been reconstituted as the Irish Strategic Investment Fund. The dual mandate of the ISIF...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Missions (1 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: I am due to travel to the East Coast of the U.S. later this month. This visit will focus primarily on maintaining and encouraging foreign direct investment into Ireland. Since taking office in 2011, I have completed 28 major trade and investment missions. At the heart of our jobs plan has been growing employment in the exporting parts of the economy. Key to this has been growing the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (1 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: The property mentioned is not under the ownership of IDA Ireland. IDA Ireland is aware, however, of the availability of this property and has included it on its property database of available office and manufacturing properties in Co. Kerry. This database is used to identify possible properties which might be suited to potential client needs. In County Kerry as a whole there are 12 IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers (1 Oct 2015)

Richard Bruton: As of 28th September 2015 Microfinance Ireland (MFI) has approved 683 applications to the value of €10.5m supporting 1,554 jobs. All the figures that the Deputy has requested are available in the quarterly and yearly progress reports which are published on my Department’s website www.djei.ie. The progress report detailing the analysis and performance up to the quarterly period...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Funding (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) provide supports for their clients in the form of capital grants (so-called “Measure 1” supports) which are paid directly to companies and “soft” supports (so-called “Measure 2” supports), such as training, mentoring, and entrepreneurial capacity building, etc, where there are no direct grants paid to the companies...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Equality Tribunal is independent in the exercise of its quasi-judicial functions and I have no direct involvement in its day to day operations. The Equality Tribunal has jurisdiction to investigate and decide upon complaints of discrimination under the Employment Equality Acts, the Equal Status Acts and the Pensions Acts. The Equality Tribunal also provides a statutory mediation service....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Equality Tribunal is independent in the exercise of its quasi-judicial functions and I have no direct involvement in its day to day operations. The Equality Tribunal has jurisdiction to investigate and decide upon complaints of discrimination under the Employment Equality Acts, the Equal Status Acts and the Pensions Acts. The Equality Tribunal also provides a statutory mediation...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Advertising Campaigns (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: The advertisement on RTE radio the Deputy is referring to is part of an awareness campaign aimed at providing information to start-ups and SMEs of the more than 80 significant Government supports available to assist them in starting and growing their businesses.My Department decided to run an awareness campaign in response to a well-recognised demand for more information on Government...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: International Summits (30 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: The international Web Summit event held in Dublin has been a phenomenal success since its inception and my Department, through its agencies, is delighted to have been a partner since its foundation. The Web Summit event first began in 2010 and had just 400 attendees. IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland have been core supporters of F.Ounders/Dublin Web Summit event since the beginning....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: I presume the Chairman is referring to the guidance document before us. We have no issues with it as a general approach. However, in any assessment of the impact of what we are doing, one must take a broader view than that allowed by some of the expressions in the document. The guidance suggests, for example, that outputs should relate to goods and services provided to third parties which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: I accept that we can do better in certain areas. On foot of this meeting, we will pull out areas where we feel we could present a better picture to members of this committee. The vast bulk of our budget is used to support enterprises in their expansion plans. It will probably be tricky to turn that into outputs. There are activities, but the outputs probably take a number of years to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Bruton: Yes. For example, we can certainly do stuff on the Workplace Relations Commission. We can give material that we track uniformly. I have no problem with that. We will get material from as many areas as we can, and if the committee feels we have missed areas, we can develop the process. We will produce something fairly smartly.