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Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...way. I thank you on behalf of Finola, Matthew, Juliana, Emily, Mary-Elizabeth and, of course, my sister Mary and, I should say, the next generation: Ophelia, Hugo, Oliver and Robin, who were the apple of his eye, as they say, and buoyed him up, particularly during his long illness. I think it was Kieran who spoke about how Ireland has changed since John entered politics. Going back to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Issues Facing Small Businesses: Discussion (16 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...work for remote working, a commitment to a circular economy and the types of measures that involves. There will be friction in many ways in designing that future. This is not all motherhood and apple pie. There is a hard edge to the change that is coming at us at a rate of knots.

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...are doing by appealing. The Commission has made a decision in which it has set itself up as the prosecutor, judge and executioner. Under European law, member states and individual companies such as Apple have a clear right to dispute such rulings. Many of the Commission's rulings of this nature have been overturned because they were without foundation in fact or in the applicable...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (20 Jan 2016)

Richard Bruton: ...and 213 new investments in Ireland were made during the course of the year, of which 94 came from new names. Many large multinationals also publicly announced investment plans in Ireland, including Apple, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Pramerica, Northern Trust, Facebook, Vodafone, SAS, Google, ABEC Inc, and Zalando. Notwithstanding these record numbers, global competition for FDI - whether from...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...flow of job announcements. A further 2,500 jobs among IDA Ireland clients have been announced since the beginning of October, with some very significant announcements among them. SAGE, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Apple were just some examples. This year has been another very strong year for investment wins by IDA Ireland and the agency is well on track to meet and surpass its jobs...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Public Investment Projects (11 Nov 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...their investment plans. In the same period in 2014, there were 100 projects leading to 8,000 jobs. Among the companies publicly announcing investment plans in Ireland in the first half of 2015 were Apple, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Northern Trust, Facebook , Agora Publishing, Viagogo, Zimmer, ABEC Inc. and Zalando. Ireland is also investing in a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Information and Communications Technology (4 Nov 2015)

Richard Bruton: ..., Amazon, IBM, EMC and ADOBE have made significant investments over recent years. While most such Centres are located in or close to Dublin, a very welcome announcement earlier this year was the decision of Apple to locate in County Galway and the Centre the Deputy refers to in her question will be located in County Meath. In order that we have the right conditions in place to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (4 Nov 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...investment plans. In the same period in 2014, there were 100 projects leading to 8,000 jobs. Among the companies publicly announcing investment plans in Ireland in the first half on 2015 include Apple, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Northern Trust, Facebook, Agora Publishing, Viagogo, Zimmer, ABEC Inc, and Zalando. My Department’s Policy Statement...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...that deluged this country, brought so many businesses, homes and people to their knees and saw so many dreams shattered. We have seen the liquidation of Anglo Irish Bank, which was the most rotten apple in the barrel. We see other banks now back in a position in which they are lending again. It is gratifying to see that, although the banks are not what we would want them to be, their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: An Action Plan for Jobs 2015: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (10 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...is worth taking a look at some of the recent announcements. Since the turn of the year we have had such announcements in Fermoy and Dundalk, as well as Combilift in Monaghan, Lakelands in Cavan, Apple in Athenry, Airbnb in Dublin and Northern Trust in Limerick. These are all in high-paying, good, solid sectors offering long-term prospects. It is particularly good to see the strength of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (3 Mar 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...over the 5 year period of increasing increase the level of investments won into in each region by between 30% and 40% during the lifetime of the strategy. To date this year there have been two significant announcements for County Galway. Apple announced last week that it is to invest €850 million in a data centre to be built and located in Derrydonell near Athenry, Co. Galway. The...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Portfolio (3 Feb 2015)

Richard Bruton: ...building firms and project managers, clean room providers, specialist recruitment agencies, tailored educational courses etc. The region also has a significant cluster of ICT companies such as Apple, Dell, McAfee, Trend Micro, EMC, VMware, among others. The cluster of companies has led to the growth in suitably qualified individuals, experienced in working with multi-national...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Property Market Issues (17 Dec 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...property solutions continues to play a key role in supporting the delivery of FDI into Ireland. Many recent investments won, including West Pharma in Waterford, LinkedIn and Novartis in Dublin, Apple in Cork, Regeneron in Limerick, Jazz and Alexion Pharmaceuticals in Athlone and eBay and Paypal in Dundalk, among others, had significant property and infrastructural requirements that were a...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Bruton: .... IDA Ireland also has a number of suitably serviced strategic sites available for large scale development in the region. The region also has a significant cluster of ICT companies such as Apple, Dell, McAfee, Trend Micro, EMC, VMware, among others. These global names have, not alone located in the South West but have reinvested in the area, offering confidence to new clients. The...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (28 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...in 2003, Google Ireland Limited was paid €7,500,000 in grant assistance from IDA Ireland. That company employs over 2,500 staff in this country. In the 33 years since establishing in Ireland, Apple’s entire operation has been paid €17,854,407 in grant assistance from IDA Ireland in support of its major corporate activities in Cork. That company employs approximately...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Reliefs Application (22 May 2013)

Richard Bruton: The companies to which the Deputy refers, Google and Apple, between them employ more than 6,000 people in Ireland. These are real substantive companies providing significant employment and they are very competitive players. I repeat what the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Finance said: there are no special deals under our tax code with any company. This is categorically...

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...is in contrast to 250,000 private sector jobs being lost in the three years before the current Government took office; — the major jobs announcements since March 2011 including: PayPal (1,000 jobs), Kerry Group (800 jobs), Sky (800 jobs), Paddy Power (600 jobs), Mylan (500 jobs), Apple (500 jobs), Northern Trust (400 jobs), EA/Bioware (500 jobs in total), Eli Lilly (200 jobs) and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Horizon 2020 Strategy (18 Sep 2012)

Richard Bruton: ...This is an increase of over 1,000 jobs, or 5%, on the 2010 figure. To date, in 2012, there have been further job announcements with significant investments announced by Eli Lily, Big Fish Games, Pepsi Cola, Apple, Xilinx and M/A Com Tech. Cork continues to demonstrate its ability to grow and evolve to meet the needs of existing and future investors. As a strong University City with over...

Written Answers — Job Statistics: Job Statistics (12 Jul 2012)

Richard Bruton: ...on the previous year. In the first six months of 2012 alone, in excess of 5,000 new jobs have been announced by IDA client companies with some of the biggest announcements coming from PayPal, Apple and Mylan. Sectors where growth is particularly strong include consumer services, ICT, life sciences and international financial services. The pharmaceutical sector in particular has seen a...

Written Answers — Departmental Equipment: Departmental Equipment (27 Mar 2012)

Richard Bruton: ...None of these are due to be upgraded this year. While no tablet devices have been issued to staff, my Department's ICT unit is currently testing their suitability for official use and to that end 5 Apple iPads and 5 BlackBerry Playbooks have been acquired. The upcoming Irish presidency of the EU will place significant additional pressures on my Department. Staff will be required to travel...