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Seanad: Cost of Doing Business: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...be paid at a rate of 50% of the business commercial rate bill for 2023. For qualifying businesses with a 2023 commercial rate bill of between €10,000 and €30,000, the ICOB grant will be €5,000. The Irish Timesreported in December 2023 that IBEC estimates that the annual increases in labour costs arising from these measures will exceed €4 billion. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

...will improve further as we roll out the C3 scanners, which are like MRI machines. They are much better for compliance, but they are also a better passenger experience because people do not have to take liquids out of their bags. I hope some of the committee’s members have had this experience going through Dublin Airport. We intend to roll the machines out across T1, T2 and Cork...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ..., nothing from the operating company, the Clerys workers' legal employer, an operation that, as the Minister will recall, was hived off from the structure that owned the building and that was then liquidated in a corporate power play in the early hours of that morning, on a day that will live on in infamy in terms of Irish society and Irish business. Deirdre Foley, the owner of the...

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

Matt Shanahan: ..., before getting to the nuclear option where they suddenly have to decide they cannot go on any more. Then they are into the small companies administrative rescue process, SCARP, administration or liquidation or whatever. Mr. Jennings asked about ISME being taken onto LEEF. I have asked the Tánaiste in the Dáil and in this committee if that will happen. I have said IBEC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (6 Jul 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Maurice Quinlivan: ...participate in the meeting remotely must do so from within the Leinster House complex only. Apologies have been received from Senator Garvey. The Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021 proposes to provide for the inclusion of redundancy payments among the list of preferential debts provided for by section 621 of the Companies Act 2014. It also proposes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Pig Industry: Discussion. (13 Apr 2022)

..., falls well short of current losses being incurred. In our view, the Government will have to be open to reviewing supports as circumstances in the markets evolve. MII is a trade association within IBEC. We represent primary meat processors; we do not represent the secondary meat processing sector. Our members’ processing facilities are located throughout rural Ireland. The...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...31st July setting out its work programme for 2020 - 2022. As part of this work programme, I requested that the CLRG consider whether the legal provisions surrounding collective redundancies and the liquidation of companies effectively protect the rights of workers, as a matter of priority. I have asked that they report to me by 31st December 2020. The CLRG is actively considering the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: ..., as such. They raised serious issues about what can be done under the legal framework of insolvency. They said that it looks as if the ongoing impasse will mean that the current asset value of the liquidated Debenhams business might be depleted by the end of the year. This will affect not only the workers but also the State, which would potentially forgo many millions of euro due to it...

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

Leo Varadkar: ...31st July setting out its work programme for 2020 - 2022. As part of this work programme, I requested that the CLRG consider whether the legal provisions surrounding collective redundancies and the liquidation of companies effectively protect the rights of workers, as a matter of priority. I have asked that they report to me by 31st December 2020. Having very recently completed its...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: ...should be withdrawn from the Bill. I wish to raise a point about Debenhams, as I often do. There is €10 million at stake to settle this dispute. The workers were at the WRC last Friday. They were informed by the liquidator, KPMG, that it may walk from the process by 23 December if it has not been resolved before then. That puts a question mark over a just settlement for the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (13 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...access to low cost loans as they respond to the impacts of COVID-19. This is the biggest ever state-backed loan guarantee in Ireland; - The recently reopened Microfinance Ireland Covid-19 Loan scheme; and - Several other initiatives to provide vital liquidity to all impacted firms have been introduced including rates waivers, temporary VAT reductions, delayed payment of PAYE and VAT debts,...

Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)

Damien English: ...range of issues and policy options set out in the paper and submit their views on the paper by 14 October, next Wednesday. We are not kicking the can down the road for 18 months or beyond; it is next week. Representatives from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, IBEC, Chambers Ireland and the Construction Industry Federation attended that meeting. The views of the social partners will...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...to low cost loans as they respond to the impacts of COVID-19. This is the biggest ever state-backed loan guarantee in Ireland; - The recently reopened Microfinance Ireland Covid-19 Loan scheme; and - Several other initiatives to provide vital liquidity to all impacted firms have been introduced including rates waivers, temporary VAT reductions, delayed payment of PAYE and VAT...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...in supporting our microbusinesses, our SME sector and our family-run businesses and the State and business must also play a central role in delivering on workers' rights, decent jobs and decent pay. IBEC reinforced this today in its submission for budget 2021, stating "The goal of measures introduced to promote economic recovery should not be simply a return to business as usual but...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Joan Collins: ...expert review, known as the Duffy Cahill report, made six important recommendations. The report was welcomed by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Clerys workers but was vehemently resisted in the consultation process by the employers body, IBEC. IBEC recommended no action be taken. Surprise, surprise, that is exactly what happened. As I stated, the priorities of a Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...is difficult. Last week, as the Deputy will be aware, particularly last Friday, there had been progress, or indications of some progress, in discussions between Mandate Trade Union and the liquidator towards a deal that could be put to the workers in a ballot. I know Sinn Féin welcomed that announcement and the fact that a proposal had been put to the workers after agreement had...

Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (30 Jul 2020)

Robert Troy: ...of being progressed quickly. Extensive consultation took place with the CLRG, the membership of which is broad and represents key stakeholders in this area such as the Irish SME Association, IBEC, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the Revenue Commissioners, insolvency practitioners, legal practitioners, academics and the Department....

Seanad: Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Robert Troy: ...quickly. Extensive consultation took place with the CLRG, membership of which is broad and represents key stakeholders in this area such as the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, IBEC, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the Revenue Commissioners, insolvency practitioners, legal practitioners, academics and my own...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (30 Jun 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Róisín Shortall: ...of the virus and the significant likelihood that there will be another wave or an upsurge at least. From listening to the Chief Medical Officer, we have to be very cautious in that respect. A measure of that is that IBEC presented recently to the Covid committee. It has good plans and proposals for rebooting and reimagining the economy. One of its three immediate demands is to remove...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Supports for Business (9 Jun 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Danny McCoy: I thank the committee for the opportunity to address it. IBEC is Ireland’s largest business representative organisation. Our positions and policies are shaped by our diverse membership, which comprises businesses that are home grown, multinational, big and small and employ up to 70% of the private sector workforce in Ireland. The structure of our membership is...