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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The 2023 Review of the Employment Permits Occupation Lists has delivered comprehensive changes to the employment permits system, with changes to the eligibility of 43 occupation for either a General Employment Permit (GEP) or a Critical Skills Employment Permit (CSEP). A roadmap up to January 2026 for increasing salary thresholds for employment permits has also been introduced commencing the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) can be contacted where an employee believes that workplace health and safety legislation is not being complied with. This can be done using their online complaint form (available on hsa.ie), by telephone at 0818 289 38 (9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday – Friday) or by post to HSA Contact Centre, Health and Safety Authority, Metropolitan Building,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The 2023 Review of the Employment Permits Occupation Lists has delivered comprehensive changes to the employment permits system, with changes to 43 occupations eligible for an employment permit, along with a roadmap for increasing salary thresholds for employment permits up to January 2026. The first adjustments to the Minimum Annual Remuneration thresholds take effect from 17th January. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The estimated full-year cost to recruit one additional WTE Overseas Manager and one extra WTE Senior Market Adviser varies depending on their employment category and geographical location. Overseas Managers based in Enterprise Ireland’s overseas offices are made up of two categories; (i)employees on an Irish contract of employment assigned to an overseas location for a fixed term...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: Following the allocation of additional funding, the HSA undertook an organisational review to ensure that the future organisational structures, resources and ways of working would be fit for purpose to meet its broad mandates. This gave rise to the overall number of sanctioned positions now at 317 across both administrative and professional and technical grades. The recruitment of additional...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The minimum annual remuneration thresholds for an employment permit are those set by the employment permits legislation as one of a range of minimum requirements governing eligibility for the grant of a permit. The roadmap of remuneration increases announced in December sets out a plan to raise the thresholds for third country permit holders across 2024, 2025 and 2026. The amendments...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The minimum annual remuneration thresholds for an employment permit are those set by the employment permits legislation as one of a range of minimum requirements governing eligibility for the grant of a permit. The roadmap of remuneration increases announced in December sets out a plan to raise the thresholds for third country permit holders across 2024, 2025 and 2026. The amendments...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: I thank the organisation for their correspondence and appreciation of the changes announced at the end of last year to the employment permits system. I am actively engaging with a number of the relevant sectoral stakeholders in regards to the implementation of the salary threshold increase associated with the role healthcare assistant. The minimum annual remuneration thresholds are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: I chair the Retail Forum, which provides a platform for engagement with members of the retail sector to discuss issues affecting the sector, and in that capacity, I met representatives from the retail and grocery sector on four occasions in 2023 – 10 May, 21 June, 20 September, and 6 December to discuss the factors driving inflation for grocery goods. Representatives from Dunnes Stores...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The Organisation of Working Time Act (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021 is a Private Members' Bill that proposes a period of paid leave following a miscarriage or for the purposes of availing of reproductive healthcare. Final Statements on the Bill were made in the Seanad on 29 November 2023 (Fifth Stage) and the Bill is scheduled to go before the Dáil on 18 January 2024...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: I propose to take Questions Nos. 444 and 445 together. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is an independent, statutory body under the aegis of my Department, established on 1st October 2015 under the Workplace Relations Act 2015. The WRC’s primary functions include the inspection of employment law compliance, the provision of information on employment law, mediation,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is an independent, statutory body under the aegis of my Department, established on 1st October 2015 under the Workplace Relations Act 2015. The WRC’s primary functions include the inspection of employment law compliance, the provision of information on employment law, mediation, adjudication, conciliation, facilitation, and advisory services. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: The Employment Permits Section of the Department has provided the requested information in the table below which set out the number of employment permits issued in 2022 and 2023. Year 2022 2023 Number of Employment Permits issued 39,922 30,981

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: Changes to the employment permits system for workers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to address skills shortages in Ireland’s care workers and home carer sector were announced by my Department on 16 December 2022. A quota of 1000 permits was made available for this sector. Since the scheme opened in January 2023 up to and including 12thJanuary 2024, 476 employment permits...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: It is positive to see Enterprise Ireland supported companies recording jobs growth for the third year in a row and that employment in companies supported by Enterprise Ireland is now at its highest ever level at over 225,000 people. The latest job figures show employment increased across all economic sectors for Enterprise Ireland supported companies. In total, 15,530 new jobs were created in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: Following the appalling events of Thursday, 23 November, in Dublin City Centre, I, along with Ministers Coveney and Calleary met with business and retail representative bodies, alongside Dublin City Council, on Tuesday 28 November 2023, to discuss how to best support the continued operation of businesses in the city centre. Also at the Retail Forum meeting in December 2023, concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (17 Jan 2024)

Neale Richmond: This Government and my Department are fully committed in advancing the interests of SMEs in Ireland. The White Paper on Enterprise sets out an ambitious vision for Ireland’s enterprise policy, to protect Ireland’s strong economic position, and respond to challenges and opportunities that have emerged because of the pandemic, wider economic and geo-political developments,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: The drafting of amendments to the Employment Permits Bill is ongoing and at an advanced stage with work to finalise provisions covering key aspects such as the Seasonal Employment Permit, and the Transfer of Employer being a priority for my Department. A key feature of the Employment Permits Bill is the proposed introduction of the Seasonal Employment Permit. Currently, the planned...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: The drafting of amendments to the Employment Permits Bill is ongoing and at an advanced stage with work to finalise provisions covering key aspects such as the Seasonal Employment Permit, and the Transfer of Employer being a priority for my Department. It is my preference for the Employment Permits Bill to be brought into the Dáil as soon as possible and this will be achieved once...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (14 Dec 2023)

Neale Richmond: The number of WTE staff, by job title, working in the Enterprise Ireland offices based in San Francisco and Vietnam as of 31 January 2022 and 6 December 2023 are set out in tabular form below: As of 6thDecember 2023 Office Job Title WTE San Francisco Overseas Manager 1 Senior Market Adviser 3 ...