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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (9 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...was a census. The figure includes €3.9 million for the ongoing 2022 census costs and €1 million for plans for the 2027 census project. Other areas funded are the household budget survey, the integrated farm statistics project, improving data security, accessibility and protection and the development of an online platform for the 2027 census so it can be done online. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Feb 2022)

Leo Varadkar: The COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme has been operating since September 2020 and during that time up to the end of 2021, a total of €617 million in loans has been drawn or approved by over 8,800 businesses, maintaining over 63,000 jobs. Businesses which have been most impacted by the effects of COVID-19 are drawing the most loans; the wholesale and retail sector, the accommodation and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Economic Data (10 Feb 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...2021 Job Growth Q3 2018 - Q3 2021 All NACE economic sectors 2,268,900 2,323,400 2,250,000 2,471,200 8.9% 202,300 Agriculture, forestry and fishing (A) 104,500 99,300 98,300 107,000 2.4% 2,500 Construction (F) 146,500 ...

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

Leo Varadkar: .... It is not yet over and they will need support for some time to come. For those businesses, we have provided certainty on the main State financial supports, such as the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, which will continue until April next year. This is the largest single action in the budget at a cost of €1.4 billion. When other jurisdictions such as Northern Ireland and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Issues (3 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...are however gradually adjusting to the new trading realities, finding alternative supply chains and are being encouraged to find new markets for their products. The most recent CSO statistical data release indicates that the value of goods exports to Great Britain in the first quarter of 2021 was €3,033 million, a decrease of €82 million (-3%) on the first quarter of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 May 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...business supports in response to the COVID-19 pandemic including loan guarantee facilities for businesses of different sizes. This query may be in reference to either the COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme or the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme, both of which offer state guaranteed lending to businesses impacted by the pandemic. The COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme was introduced at the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The Brexit Loan Scheme makes available working capital lending to eligible businesses that are exposed to impacts arising from the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. The scheme was developed in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and is operated by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland(SBCI). Loans under the scheme range from €25,000 to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...the food service and hospitality markets. As the Deputy will be aware, prices for beef and other commodities are commercial matters which the Government has no role in fixing. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, and his Department are working to ensure that businesses and services to farmers can continue, keeping food and other processing facilities...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: 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.  It is available to SMEs and small mid-caps (business with less than 500 employees), including primary producers...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: The COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme (CCGS) has €2 billion in lending available for Irish businesses and is the largest guarantee scheme in the history of the State.  Its function is to add certainty to businesses that funding is available for working capital and investment purposes. Loans of up to €1 million are available for up to five and a half years at reduced interest...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...has worked to ensure that appropriate supports are in place for businesses as they seek to navigate the disruptions this has brought to their trading environments. The COVID-19 Working Capital Scheme makes funding available to eligible businesses that have been negatively impacted by the pandemic. This scheme was developed in cooperation between the Department of Enterprise, Trade and...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...that these changes will happen regardless of the outcome of the negotiations between the EU and the UK on a Free Trade Agreement. Government is supporting Brexit preparations through the various Schemes and programmes implemented through our Agencies. Recently, I wrote to all 250,000 businesses that are registered in the State to inform them of the most important actions that they need to...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Brexit Preparations (15 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...agencies such as Enterprise Ireland, the Local Enterprise Offices and InterTradeIreland. Financial supports are available through the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland such as the Brexit Loan Scheme which offers businesses the means to deal with short term liquidity issues that could arise for instance in buying stocks or for delays that could arise at the ports. Businesses also...

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...individuals in a vast range of areas including trade in goods and services, customs and other sanitary and phytosanitary checks and controls, import duties, EU Single Market accreditations, use of the British land bridge, data transfer, recognition of qualifications, and many other issues. The plan provides clear advice on steps that need to be taken by businesses to deal with these many...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...provides significant financial assistance to the beef sector to encourage greater efficiencies and productivity. We have done this through a series of measures, including the €300 million beef data and genomics programme, €20 million for the beef environmental efficiency pilot in 2019, €78 million drawn down through the beef exceptional aid measure and the restoration...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)

Leo Varadkar: ...the deficit, but there has been an inadequate response to the crisis in the real economy, which is a crisis of unemployment and competitiveness. I note the announcement today of 6,500 training schemes, which is welcome, but it is a drop in the ocean in the context of more than 400,000 people signing on the dole. Fine Gael believes that what is required from Government is a comprehensive...