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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Company Law (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: ...looked at the legislative provisions that deal with redundancy and insolvency from both a company law and an employment perspective which come under our respective remits. The report submitted by the CLRG along with the ICTU minority report were considered by our officials and both our community law unit and employment law unit as part of the development of a plan for action on collective...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (3 Jun 2021)

Damien English: ...there is a strong, diverse, and balanced retail business presence across the country which sustains the local and domestic economy and contributes to the export economy, both online and offline. A long-term goal for the overall retail sector prior to the pandemic was to scale up online offerings to complement physical outlets, but to make sure that we can develop the two. This goal has...

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

Damien English: ...businesses in County Laois have availed of the CCGS and have drawn loans with a value of €4,108,396. The Scheme is currently available through three commercial banks, six non-bank lenders and nineteen credit unions. This long-term policy goal of diversification adds competition in the market and ensures a wide range of loan products are available throughout the regions. I would...

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

Damien English: ...of encouraging them to take up permanent residence and employment in the State.  As a result, it attracts a number of additional benefits over other permit types. These include an option to apply for long term residency permission after two years on a CSEP, immediate family reunification and for broad access to the labour market for dependents, spouses/partners of CSEP holders. ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Vaccination Programme (1 Jun 2021)

Damien English: ...the vaccination should it fall during working time. I would also encourage all employers to be as flexible and supportive as possible with a view to maintaining good employment relationships over the long term. Employers are obliged to take reasonable steps to provide a safe place of work for their staff. In circumstances where employers fail to consider any of the reasonable options,...

Seanad: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 May 2021)

Damien English: ...is not part of this Bill. This Bill does not deal with investment properties or houses. There is a miscommunication around what is needed in housing to make it happen. We need to have a really long conversation about that, because there is a lot more to the story than some people in this House are trying to make out. On the point raised by Senator Garvey, the maximum interest rate is...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Damien English: ...a great chance just to sit back and listen to everybody's personal stories and the stories relayed to them. Everybody knows somebody who has been touched by miscarriage or a stillbirth after the long journey to try to have a family in the first place and all the complications that go with that. Some people have been very lucky on that journey while some have been very unlucky....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 May 2021)

Damien English: ...list) with the aim of encouraging them to take up permanent residence and employment in the State.  As a result, it attracts a number of additional benefits over the other permit types including a fast-track to long term residency after two years, immediate family reunification and broad access to the labour market of dependent/spouse/partners. For the other employment permit...

Seanad: Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Damien English: ...that financial crisis. It is the same this time round. While it was great to be able to get in to or out of Dublin from County Meath in less than an hour, I will not complain that it took much longer than that today because it means there is economic activity, which leads to jobs. Of course, we all want to make that better through public transport and everything else, but more...

Loan Guarantee Schemes Arrangements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 May 2021)

Damien English: ...in that space. We react to their needs and try to respond to them and this Bill is part of that response. We are bringing forward a product that we believe will be of more use to them. There are longer terms, it is available to primary producers, it has been extended from three to six years and the requirement to show innovation has been dropped. There is also an open, competitive call...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Damien English: ...vaccination should it fall during working time. I would also encourage all employers to be as flexible and supportive as possible with a view to maintaining good employment relationships over the long term. Employers are obliged to take reasonable steps to provide a safe place of work for their staff. In circumstances where employers fail to consider any of the reasonable options, an...

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

Damien English: ...time for business, with 22,951 jobs maintained up to the end of March with a potential of an increase of 3,488 jobs. The Scheme is currently available through three commercial banks, four non-bank lenders and nineteen credit unions.  This long-term policy goal of diversification adds competition in the market and ensures a wide range of loan products are available throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Damien English: ...loan guarantee schemes. In July of 2020, the Future Growth Loan Scheme was expanded by €500m. This scheme offers state guaranteed loans for terms of 7-10 years to businesses seeking to make long-term investments. It has seen strong uptake since its expansion, and this is an indication that businesses are planning and making investment for a post-COVID-19 environment. While...

Seanad: Remote Working Strategy: Motion (15 Feb 2021)

Damien English: ...not meant to happen. As a result of poor planning over many years, things worked out that way . People were left having to make journeys of two or three hours to and from work or did not know how long the journey would take, which is even worse because they could plan their lives. Remote working, as well as investment and all of the other infrastructure, including rail and so on, will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (9 Dec 2020)

Damien English: ...and their families, not least at this time of year and given the difficult year it has been with Covid-19. This is not the news they wanted. We all know about the pressure on the retail sector, along with other sectors, but we remain hopeful that we can minimise the number of job losses in that sector as a whole in the months ahead. That will be the aim of the Government, without a...

Seanad: Reopening Ireland (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Damien English: ...parts of business will have changed forever. We need to work with that sector. It is important we focus our minds over the next couple of days to be in a position next week to have retail back, along with hairdressers, barbers, gyms and other businesses which have been under pressure. There is still a significant conversation around the hospitality sector, restaurants, cafes, pubs and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Damien English: ...suggests we take a broader policy view on it, that would be a separate discussion from what is recommended in the Duffy Cahill report but it is certainly something that can be looked at in the long term. It is not something that could be decided in the month of August or September. The Deputy referenced Debenhams and the letters. We are undertaking this work in the Department and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Damien English: ...for many years. I have not followed its story - I am not involved in retail - but the fact that it was restructuring in 2015 or 2016 around redundancies showed that it had difficulties for a long number of years. I am not sure it is right to say it is because it belonged to a foreign owner. The Deputy is asking us to look at the owners of every company and see what needs to be done. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Damien English: ...for those arrangements? Generally, those agreements were paid out quite quickly because they are part of the process of that time. That is my understanding of them. If they are to be there long term because in some cases, they are or become terms of employment or part of an employment negotiation, are funds allocated or an asset ring-fenced to pay for them? That is what the Duffy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (25 Nov 2020)

Damien English: .... So many people were committed, many of whom had 30 years-plus service. It is difficult for any of us to lose a job. It is, however, even more so when a person was committed to a company for so long and gave so much of his or her life, and probably grew up in the place. In many cases, it was generations of families. That is difficult to accept and hard to work on. That is why the...