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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: On Friday, 15 May 2020, the Government decided to establish a new €250m Restart Grant providing direct grant aid to micro and small businesses to help them with the costs associated with reopening and reemploying workers following COVID-19 closures. The funds for the Restart Grant were transferred by Enterprise Ireland to all local authorities on Wednesday 10 June and the payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: As Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, I understand both the importance of safe working conditions as well as the opportunities presented by flexible working solutions. Last year my Department published the Remote Work in Ireland report. This research paper was dedicated to understanding the prevalence and types of remote working arrangements within the Irish workforce, the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The SBCI Covid-19 Working Capital Scheme [Covid-19 WCS] is offered by my Department in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and is supported by a counter-guarantee from the European Investment Fund [EIF] through its InnovFin SME Guarantee facility. This counter guarantee has enabled €15 million in Exchequer funding to be leveraged to provide €200...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: IDA Ireland is authorised by my Department to provide a range of financial supports in the form of employment, capital, research and development, environmental and training grants. These grants are an important means of encouraging companies to invest in Ireland, particularly in regional locations. Multinational firms must meet certain criteria in order to be eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Business Continuity Voucher scheme was launched on 26th March. The purpose of the scheme was to provide expert guidance and advice to SMEs employing up 50 people and enable business owners make informed decisions about what immediate measures and remedial actions could be taken at the outset of this crisis, to protect staff and sales and eventually help the business recover. The scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: On Friday, 15 May 2020, the Government decided to establish a new €250m Restart Grant providing direct grant aid to micro and small businesses to help them with the costs associated with reopening and re-employing workers following COVID-19 closures. The funds for the Restart Grant were transferred by Enterprise Ireland to all local authorities on Wednesday 10 June and the payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: On Friday, 15 May 2020 the Government announced details of the new €250m Restart Grant providing direct grant aid to micro and small businesses. The grant is a contribution towards the cost of re-opening or keeping a business operational and re-connecting with employees and customers. To avail of the Restart Grant, applicants must be a commercial business and be in the Local...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Covid-19 Loan, available from Microfinance Ireland (MFI), was introduced as a support to microenterprises to help them access funding arising from the Covid-19 crisis. These loans are available for eligible microenterprises responding to Covid-19-related difficulties, the negative impact of which must be a minimum of 15% of actual or projected income or profit. Loans up to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 442 and 443 together. The national Return to Work Safely Protocol can be used by all workplaces to adapt their workplace procedures and practices to comply fully with the COVID-19 related public health protection measures identified as necessary by the HSE and the Department of Health. It is operating in parallel with existing workplace health and safety...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In my contribution to the Dáil on 21 May last I pointed out that, at that stage, the Health and Safety Authority had carried out over 240 on-site compliance inspections.  I also said that while the Health and Safety Authority does not give details of individual inspections, or details of individual employers, as such information is deemed confidential, I was able to confirm that...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Reply awaited.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy will be aware that the EU Commission has developed a Temporary Framework for State aid measures to allow member states certain flexibilities to put in place short term, targeted responses to the impact of COVID-19 on their economies. Ireland’s Sustaining Enterprise Fund Scheme is available until the end of the year which is a timeframe set within the EU Commission’s...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy will be aware that the EU's temporary state aid framework allows EU member states to put in place short term, targeted responses to the impact of COVID-19 on their economies. The nature of the business supports under this framework is a matter for individual member states and is dependent upon the different size of economies and targeted sectors of the economies. The €180...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm to the Deputy that I, my Department and the wider Government will be diligently working with the European Commission to ensure Irish businesses will have access to the new Recovery and Resilience Facility. It will provide large-scale financial support to reforms and investments undertaken in every Member State including Ireland, with the aims of mitigating the economic and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Next Generation EU fund is a new €750 billion recovery instrument that will be made available to member states in the form of loans and grants. This recovery instrument will be embedded into a longer-term EU budget. It is expected to take the rest of 2020 to put the recovery and resilience facility in place, as it will have to be agreed in the European Council, the revised...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In accordance with the Government’s Roadmap for Reopening Society and Businessannounced on the 5th June, there are now two remaining phases instead of three, with Phase 3 starting on the 29th of June, and Phase 4 on the 20th of July. Further work is being carried out in the coming days and weeks to determine which actions will take place in each phase. Updates to the roadmap can be...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: On Friday, 15 May 2020, the Government decided to establish a new €250m Restart Grant providing direct grant aid to micro and small businesses to help them with the costs associated with reopening and reemploying workers following COVID-19 closures. The funds for the Restart Grant were transferred by Enterprise Ireland to all local authorities on Wednesday 10 June and the payments are...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Restart grant is designed to help small and micro commercial enterprises to re-launch their business and reconnect with their employees and customers. The grant is being paid using the Local Authorities Commercial Rates System as the most efficient means of delivery. The grant is the amount of the 2019 rates assessment subject to a minimum grant of €2,000 and a maximum of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In order to assist businesses to address the challenges posed by COVID-19, the Government has put in place a comprehensive suite of supports for firms of all sizes, which includes the wage subsidy scheme, grants, low-cost loans, write-off of commercial rates and deferred tax liabilities. These supports are designed to build confidence, to further assist businesses in terms of the management...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Heather Humphreys: In order to assist businesses to address the challenges posed by COVID-19, the Government has put in place a comprehensive suite of supports for firms of all sizes, which includes the wage subsidy scheme, grants, low-cost loans, write-off of commercial rates and deferred tax liabilities. These supports are designed to build confidence, to further assist businesses in terms of the management...