Results 21-40 of 76 for 5 million speaker:Damien English

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: ..., championing design thinking, and informing Government policy. DCCI’s activities are funded by my Department through Enterprise Ireland. In 2022, my Department will provide an additional €1 million in funding, up to a total of €5.6 million, to support the work of the Design and Crafts Council Ireland in what is an extremely valuable indigenous industry in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (2 Nov 2021)

Damien English: The Local Enterprise Offices will receive an additional €2m under Budget 2022 which represents an almost 5% increase in funding. This additional investment will allow each of the 31 Local Enterprise Offices to enhance the role they already play in assisting local and regional development including the launching of the Regional Enterprise Plans. The additional funding provided will...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Damien English: ...within the SME sector for the future, it is vital that businesses are equipped for the transition to the green and digital economy. I am pleased that Enterprise Ireland has been allocated an extra €10 million in budget 2022 to enable it to work with enterprises on the importance of climate change, mitigation and adaption. Working through our agencies, we will assist companies to...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Damien English: ...best long-term policy is, in our view, to support households with their energy costs through energy efficiency measures, with the Government providing a total retrofit budget in excess of €280 million for this year. There are long-term commitments in the national plan, setting out where we hope to go in the years ahead. We will continue with the development of renewable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Promotion (15 Sep 2021)

Damien English: ...a pilot online retail scheme, in 2018. Some 40 retailers across Ireland were provided with €894,636 in funding over two calls of the pilot scheme with grants of between €10,000 and €25,000 on a 50% matched fund basis. In 2020, my Department launched the Covid-19 online retail scheme in response to the Covid-19 crisis and the urgent need for retail companies to...

Seanad: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Damien English: ...they try to trade their way through Covid and Brexit. This is what we are trying to deal with. To unlock the European guarantee fund counter-guarantee, which will be used to leverage funding of up to €330 million for the Brexit impact loan scheme, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will collectively contribute...

Loan Guarantee Schemes Arrangements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 May 2021)

Damien English: ...the European guarantee fund, which is managed by the European Investment Fund on behalf of the European Commission. The effect of the counter-guarantee is to allow for a scheme of up to €330 million in lending to be made available at a maximum executor cost of €29 million. This relates a multiplier effect of State funds by more than a factor of ten. The scheme costs will...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Damien English: ...ensure that high-income countries finance the vaccines and support the developing countries to secure their share of global supply. As part of our response, the Government, via Irish Aid has channeled €5 million to direct supports to COVID-19 vaccination, including through the COVAX mechanism, which has to date delivered over 49 million vaccines already to 121 participant countries.

Seanad: Remote Working Strategy: Motion (15 Feb 2021)

Damien English: -----in 2015. We are very committed to upgrading that. On the subject of this debate, remote working, everyone touched on its benefits, how important it is for family and community life and the opportunities it provides. Over the past year many people were sent home to work remotely in an unplanned way and this has had various consequences. Many difficulties have been worked out over the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Damien English: ...by Enterprise Ireland, provides for collaborative, enterprise capability-building projects advancing entrepreneurship, productivity and innovation in the Border Region. The Fund is part of a €28 million economic stimulus package announced for the six border counties of Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal earlier this year.  Enterprise Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Damien English: ...for the recovery. The measures in the Budget are in addition to those announced in the July Stimulus, which was a substantial financial package to stimulate our economy worth more than €5 billion, with an additional €2 billion in loan guarantees for the new Credit Guarantee Scheme. As of 9th October, 45,505 businesses had applied for the Restart Grant, with...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Damien English: ...and business if we are to upgrade those services that we want to invest in in the years ahead. This is a strong budget in that regard, as it must be. Our Department will receive an extra €136 million in our direct line budget and we will be able to tap into an extra €100 million from the recovery fund next year. People will say that there is a great deal of uncertainty...

Seanad: Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Jul 2020)

Damien English: ...we debated the Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020 but I will now add further detail. When these figures are broken down further, we see that microenterprises accounted for approximately 26.5% of persons engaged and the greater number of enterprises, at 92.1%. Small and medium enterprises combined accounted for 42% of total persons engaged in employment in 2017 and just under...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Damien English: ...SMEs, has been enormous. SMEs are the backbone of Ireland's economy, representing 99.8% of business activities in Ireland. In May 2019 there were 238,000 SMEs in our economy, employing more than 1.3 million workers at a time when overall employment stood at 2.3 million. These enterprises are spread throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas, and represent a vibrant and...

Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Jul 2020)

Damien English: .... The impact on SMEs has been enormous. SMEs are the backbone of the economy, representing 99.8% of business activities in Ireland. In May 2019, there were 238,000 SMEs in our economy employing more than 1.3 million workers at a time overall employment stood at 2.3 million. These enterprises are spread throughout the country in urban and rural areas and represent a vibrant and diverse...

Seanad: Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Jul 2020)

Damien English: ...however, demand for the scheme has been phenomenal. That is important and we must respond to that demand. The first part of that response was to issue more money, and that has happened. Almost €14 million or €15 million in additional money has been put into the scheme. However, then one must find a process to get that money out, get people onto the course and get the...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2020)

Damien English: ...drive the economic recovery plan in October. The Department has an excellent team which is ready to work with all our State agencies and enterprise agencies. An earlier speaker indicated that more than 135 agencies are working with and on behalf of the Department on job creation. They include local enterprise offices or LEOs, enterprise units in county councils, local authorities and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mica Redress Scheme (13 May 2020)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1231, 1238 and 1241 together. Regulations have been made under sections 2 and 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 to provide for a grant scheme of financial assistance to support affected homeowners in the counties of Donegal and Mayo to carry out the necessary remediation works to dwellings that have been damaged due to defective concrete...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Building Energy Rating Administration (11 Dec 2019)

Damien English: As part of the just transition proposals for the midlands region, budget 2020 has made provision for an additional €20 million to fund energy efficiency upgrades to local authority houses in the affected midland counties. There is €5 million in the initial tranche. This funding is in addition to the €25 million, which my Department is making available in 2020 for energy...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)

Damien English: ...experiencing homelessness. Senators can be assured that real progress is being made. The number of people exiting homelessness into a home is increasing significantly. In the first half of the year, 2,825 adults and their associated dependants exited homelessness into tenancies. This is an increase of 21% on the comparable period in 2018. However, we are the first to recognise that...