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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The National Competitiveness Council is a group of people serviced by the strategic policy unit of the Department. It is not a spending centre. It commissions consultancy reports and publishes reports, and is entirely independent. A new chairman has just been appointed. I strengthened the council by including industry partners who are actively engaged in key sectors and we have an...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The responsibility for motor vehicles type approvals directives lies with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and its Agency, the Road Safety Authority. The NSAI operates as the approval authority for related directives, 2007/46/EC (Under the European Communities (Road Vehicles: Entry into Service) Regulations (S.I 157 of 2009) made by the then Minister for Transport, which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The responsibility for motor vehicles type approvals directives lies with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and its Agency, the Road Safety Authority. The NSAI operates as the approval authority for related directives, 2007/46/EC (Under the European Communities (Road Vehicles: Entry into Service) Regulations (S.I 157 of 2009) made by the then Minister for Transport, which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The responsibility for motor vehicles type approvals directives lies with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and its Agency, the Road Safety Authority. The NSAI operates as the approval authority for related directives, 2007/46/EC (Under the European Communities (Road Vehicles: Entry into Service) Regulations (S.I 157 of 2009) made by the then Minister for Transport, which...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: Details of a comprehensive new strategy to support enterprise growth and job creation at regional level were announced by the Government last week. The Regional Action Plans for Jobs initiative seeks to build on the success of the annual Action Plan for Jobs process by developing locally driven plans that can build on the strengths and opportunities identified in each region. Eight Regional...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Act 2014 (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Companies Act, 2014 was signed by the President on 23 December 2014. It maintains the current legal position regarding accountants, in that it does not contain a legal definition of the term 'accountant', nor does it require that accountants must be recognised by a professional association/body. The Companies Act 2014 introduces a modern Company Law Code for Ireland and brings...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Court Recommendations (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: I understand that a number of separate, but connected, issues are involved in the dispute at the school building site near Lucan, Co. Dublin, including allegations regarding non-compliance with statutory rates of pay, status of employees and the issue of subcontracting. The dispute was the subject of a recent Labour Court hearing and subsequent Recommendation. I understand that the parties...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 and 253 together. The Midlands has a strong cluster of Medical Technologies and Life Sciences companies (Abbott, Covidien, Integra, GeneMedix, Freund, Utah, KCI, AMS) and International Business Services companies (Teleflex, AXA, NPD Group and PPD). These international brands are an attraction for additional companies to potentially locate to the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development Sites (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA Ireland that there are two IDA Ireland sites available for inward investment in County Longford; a 0.97 hectare site in Lisnamuck Industrial Estate and a 1.98 hectare site in Aghafad. IDA Ireland positions the Midlands Region, which is comprised of counties of Longford, Westmeath, Laois and Offaly, as having a strong cluster in Medical Technology and Life Sciences....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Action Plan for Jobs since 2012 has set a comprehensive set of measures agreed by Government to promote job opportunities and employment growth in all parts of the country. The 2015 Action Plan for Jobs was launched on January 29th. The 2015 Action Plan contains a suite of 380 actions to deliver an additional 40,000 jobs this year throughout the country. Specifically, in 2015,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Postcode System Expenditure (17 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: My Department anticipates that Eircode postcodes can be incorporated into address records on Department stationery with minimal costs. However, the level of stationery on hands at the time of introduction of the code will influence this basic cost. It is anticipated that there will be some ICT development costs to integrate the Eircodes into my Department's differing registers and...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Government has made a range of financial supports available to Irish SMEs to support growth and job creation in the economy. These include seed and venture capital schemes, development capital schemes, the innovation fund, Microfinance Ireland, the credit guarantee scheme and three funds put in place by the National Pensions Reserve Fund. In addition, the Strategic Banking Corporation...

Other Questions: Credit Availability (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: I agree that access to finance is vital to the growth of the economy, but it is worth observing that the reported refusal rate of banks has more than halved, down from 30% to 14%. Applicants appeal decisions to the Credit Review Office, CRO. Between the CRO and the banks, 70% of decisions are being overturned where applicants challenge them. That is important for applicants. Between all...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: I am informed by IDA Ireland that it owns two land banks in County Tipperary with potential for use for inward investment in the future. One of these is located in Ballingarrane, Clonmel, and consists of approximately 20 hectares, or 49 acres, while in Tipperary town there is a site of approximately 3 hectares, or 7.42 acres, available. I am informed by IDA Ireland that pending the...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: First, the Deputy needs to understand the Government does not allocate enterprises or jobs to counties, towns or regions. Enterprises make decisions. To improve the attractiveness of certain regions, additional supports can be made available by IDA Ireland. In the south east and mid-west, additional support is provided by IDA Ireland to enterprises that wish to locate there. The supports...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: The Deputy insists on repeating what is simply an untruth. Some 20% of the money being made available is being made available to advance facilities — nine in each of the six regions, including the Deputy's own, the south east, and the south west.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: However, he wants to list every town and village and say it has been excluded.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: That is not the way in which decisions about investment are made in this country. I am long enough in this House to recall when decisions were made in the way the Deputy talks about, whereby buildings would be pushed up in wildernesses and stand there as white elephants because of the waste of public money. What is happening now is that IDA Ireland is making strategic decisions. It will...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: Enterprise is about strong commitment and people being courageous enough to make investments. The Government and IDA Ireland are in place to support them, as is Enterprise Ireland. That is the strategy that will build employment, not that of the Deputy.

Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: One can be sceptical of enterprises and investment, but just a moment ago Deputy Healy stated that there was not enough international investment and that big corporations were not coming in and investing enough.