Results 1-5 of 5 for agriculture scheme data speaker:Damien English

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: ...;s final assessment of the status of occupations. Account is also taken of upskilling and training initiatives and other known contextual factors, such as the ending of the pandemic unemployment payment schemes and the Ukrainian humanitarian Crisis, and their impact on the labour market. In order to have an occupation considered for adding or removing from the Occupations Lists,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (18 May 2021)

Damien English: The COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme was introduced in March 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, to help businesses seeking to innovate, change or adapt to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. Loans under the scheme range from €25,000 to €1.5m, for terms of up to three years. Loans of up to €500,000 are available unsecured and the maximum interest rate under the scheme is 4%....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2021)

Damien English: The COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme is the largest loan guarantee scheme in the history of the State.The Scheme provides €2 billion in lending, for terms up to five-and-a-half years and offers a range of lending products between €10,000 and €1 million at interest rates below market rates for similar type loans.  It is available to SMEs and small mid-caps (business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Protection of Young Persons (Employment) (Exclusion of Workers in the Fishing and Shipping Sectors) Regulations 2021 (27 Apr 2021)

Damien English: ...have a very clear directive. People might want to bring forward cases to us and this will strengthen the national law to deal with them. I will raise it with the Minister to see whether there is data on the numbers. We do not think they are large. It is generally family situations. Deputy Stanton mentioned the atypical scheme and a number of Departments are involved in it. As the...

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

Damien English: ...for Senators as well. To give an idea of the extent of the impact which we have seen, by the end of April 2020 the numbers on the live register, pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, and temporary wage subside scheme, TWSS, combined have increased to more than 1,177,000, but further job losses are still possible. While the number of people on the PUP is falling week on week, the scale of...