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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Information and Communications Technology (15 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The ICT Unit of my Department has informed me that the total capital investment in compute and data infrastructure, which includes server and network hardware used to deliver ICT services to the public and staff in my Department; and PC's, Laptops, tablets, printers etc. used directly by staff in my Department in the performance of their duties is as follows. Year Amount...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department serves as the national contact point at EU level on matters of State Aid policy. As part of this function, my officials collate and submit the report on the application of the State Aid rules for Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI) to the European Commission. The report is submitted every two years in accordance with the State Aid rules for SGEI. These reports are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Support Services (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: As Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I consider that increasing the numbers of people with disabilities participating in the labour market represents a significant opportunity for employers and the enterprise sector. The development of policy measures and initiatives to support disability rights and inclusion fall, primarily, under the remit of my colleague the Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: An important element of IDA Ireland’s strategy is to diversify its market reach by broadening the geographic profile of investment. To support this objective, a ‘Pioneering Markets’ team was established within the Growth Markets Division of IDA in 2019, tasked with extending IDA’s global footprint. This approach has been supported by the appointment of a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: Japan is the 6th largest investor globally by employment and the largest investor from the Asia Pacific region with strong cross-sectoral representation. IDA Ireland’s Tokyo office was established in 1974 and is focused on attracting and maintaining foreign direct investment from Japanese enterprises across Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), Life Sciences...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department is the national competent authority with responsibility for export controls, including controls on defence-related exports and exports of dual-use goods. Controls on the export of dual-use items are administered by my officials, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which sets up a Union regime for the control of exports,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The EU-Mercosur Agreement is designed to cement the close political and economic relations between the EU and Mercosur countries and represents a commitment to rules-based international trade. Since formal negotiations concluded in 2019, the global trade policy landscape has changed considerably. The rise in trade nationalism, the economic impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy may know, in April of this year, officials from my Department appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure Reform, and Taoiseach to assist that Committee in its hearing on the Pre-Committee Stage Screening of the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023. My Department provided a comprehensive overview of Ireland’s trading...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The Control of Exports Act 2008 requires that, as soon as practicable after the end of each year, the Minister must prepare and lay before each House of the Oireachtas, a report on the operation, in the previous year, of the Act. The Report details the licensing activity by the Department for the previous year. It provides data on the licences issued, including the number, value and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Advertising (14 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...below. These include expenditure on advertising campaigns such as: “3 Steps to Brexit”, National Minimum Wage, “Making Remote Work”, the Small Company Administrative Rescue Process (SCARP) and nine Building Better Business events nationwide. Year Media outlet Total 2019 ACCOUNTANCY IRELAND ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The expected default rate and calculation of same for State backed loan schemes is not a matter for my Department. This is a matter solely for the on-lenders of the schemes and is commercially sensitive information that is not released by the on-lenders.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (8 May 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department and the Offices under its aegis have no employees currently suspended on full pay pending disciplinary investigations. In respect of the agencies that come within my remit, they are statutorily independent in their functions and this is an operational matter for them. I have, therefore, referred the Deputy's question to the agencies for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (8 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The table below set out the current vacancies in the Workplace Relations Commission broken down by number, grade/role and the estimated full-year cost of filling each post: Number of Vacancies Grade/Role Average full-year cost of filling the role 1 PO1 - Director of Conciliation, Arbitration and Mediation €126,256.08 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (2 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) is Ireland’s company law enforcement agency. The CEA is an independent statutory body equipped with significant enforcement powers required to carry out its statutory functions which are provided for in section 944D of the Companies Act 2014. These functions include to enforce and encourage compliance with company law, to investigate suspected...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Research and Development (2 May 2024)

Peter Burke: There are two avenues through which social enterprises can access research and innovation supports. Social enterprises can access the innovation vouchers offered by Enterprise Ireland once they are an SMEs that is a limited company registered in Ireland, with fewer than 250 employees and not exceeding an annual turnover of €50m. In terms of the remaining research and innovation...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (2 May 2024)

Peter Burke: Regional development is a key element of Government's enterprise policy, as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise and is a key focus of the work of my Department. In that regard, IDA Ireland is committed to the pursuit of balanced, compact regional development and is targeting that at least half of all investments - that is 400 of 800 - from 2021 to 2024 to regional locations. IDA has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department in accordance with the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour and Circular 09/2009: Civil Servants and Political Activity, follows restrictions which have traditionally been imposed on civil servants engaging in political activity to ensure public confidence in the political impartiality of the Civil Service. Civil servants above clerical level cannot stand for local...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: Both Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland provide innovation supports to SMEs on behalf of my Department. In the case of Enterprise Ireland, which plays a crucial role in fostering innovation among Irish SMEs, it offers a comprehensive suite of supports designed to assist small and medium enterprises in their research and innovation (R&I) efforts. These supports range from funding and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment’s Report on Offshore Renewable Energy is comprehensive, and forward-thinking, and sets out recommendations on diverse but connected topics. Shortly after the publication of the Report, a Memorandum for Government Decision proposing the development of an industrial strategy for offshore wind was brought forward on 9...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Broadband Infrastructure (30 Apr 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department currently has ten PSTN lines in active operation in four locations. They are used for DSL Broadband connections and emergency phones in lifts. My Department has no ISDN or leased lines.