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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...wind sector including a range of companies and delegations from other like-minded countries. Furthermore, officials will be available at the Ireland Pavilion throughout the event including at a reception to discuss Ireland’s long-term offshore wind plans with other representatives from the OWDT, where my officials will speak on the Offshore Wind Industrial Strategy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: I am familiar with this project. It has taken a long time to get to this stage with regard to site selection. This is an elective-only hospital, which is relatively new in Ireland in terms of structure. We are pushing as hard as we can to get it built as soon as we can. In the meantime, it is important to say that there are multiple projects at big hospital campuses like CUH, for example,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...an adequate response. The European Commission has made a non-binding recommendation on the recognition of Covid-19 as an occupational disease. It did not make a recommendation, however, regarding long Covid, which I know is the issue the Deputy primarily raises. The decision regarding recognition is a member state competency. It is important to note that recognition in Ireland would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: -----quickly the regional long Covid clinics which have been promised.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...in those jurisdictions. Since 2019, there has been one instance of a statutory benefit, paid on retirement, in excess of €200,000. This payment, which is detailed below, relates to an individual with long service, in excess of 35 years, which was payable upon their retirement. This was an end of service payment in line with local legislative requirements, with no discretionary...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (13 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: Launched in December 2022, the White Paper on Enterprise sets out Government’s approach to enterprise strategy for the medium to long-term, which will work to enable Irish-based enterprise to succeed through competitive advantage founded on sustainability, innovation and productivity, delivering rewarding jobs and livelihoods. In order to achieve this vision, Government has set out...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...bargaining coverage in Ireland, will also be an important input to our action plan. It is in train. We do not have to have the action plan until the end of 2025, but it is hoped we will be able to shape it long before then.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...in a meeting next month. We have had some initial discussions, and obviously accept the Government's responsibilities in putting an action plan together. However, it is important to say we are a long way short of that 80% figure. Ireland's economy is different from many other economies around Europe. There is not the same demand for union membership and representation in some sectors...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (8 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: I will try to drag it out as long as I can. I am good at that, as you know.

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

Simon Coveney: I join the Taoiseach and many others in the House in paying tribute to an extraordinary man and a deeply impactful politician who, sadly, has died at the age of 76 after a long illness which he carried with extraordinary grace. Like others, I express my condolences to the Bruton family, to Finola his wife, to his son Matthew, to his daughters Juliana, Emily and Mary-Elizabeth, to his...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: White Papers (7 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...2022, the White Paper on Enterprise sets out the Government’s approach to enterprise policy for the period to 2030. The White Paper sets out Ireland`s enterprise strategy for the medium- to long-term, which will work to enable Irish-based enterprise to succeed through competitive advantage founded on sustainability, innovation and productivity, delivering rewarding jobs and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...;10,000 versus the others that are paying between €10,000 and €30,000, every business itself will know what it paid in rates last year and, as I said, there is clarity about what they will get back as long as they qualify. On the timeline around it, we are working with local authorities, local authority managers, the CCMA, and other representative bodies to make sure this...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...;150 million helping businesses to pay their energy costs. That also puts the ICOB package in context. We will spend almost twice what was spent on TBESS in supporting businesses this year, without a long application process, where businesses will get payments in the first quarter of this year, but TBESS, over a much longer period, resulted in us supporting businesses to the tune of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...not restrict that movement by not allowing people to bring their spouses with them. Often, to facilitate spouses coming, potentially they need to be allowed to work too. I am very open to and supportive of that as long as it is managed and confined to the right areas. On grants to trade unions, €900,000 is allocated per annum to fund education and training for trade union...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...I have said, many SMEs can get LEO supports when they would not have previously been able to do so because they would not have qualified. In other words, they might employ 15, 20 or 30 people. As long as they are manufacturing and-or exporting, they can get support through LEOs, whether they are soft or direct financial supports. There is a role for collective bargaining. However, I...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...for some developers, but it is the right thing to do to avoid legal challenges at a later stage and so we can make sure this investment actually happens and is not frustrated. In the medium to long term, there will undoubtedly be a mix of fixed and floating offshore wind. In the short term, the current rounds have seen a prioritisation of fixed, because it is much cheaper and it is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy is a patient man, having waited as long as he has. I will try to answer his questions quickly. He knows this Department well. I agree with the Deputy that the IDA and Enterprise Ireland have done Ireland an extraordinary service, particularly over the past decade or so when the economy was under real stress and pressure. They provided guidance and a supportive and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy has been a very consistent voice on the circular economy. I have a long note on the circular economy in anticipation of the question. I will send it on to the Deputy.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...can see us, but we cannot see them. I am sure they are taking an interest, though. I thank the committee for the opportunity to present my Department's 2024 Revised Estimate. I have a reasonably long introduction to read, but I hope it will give members a good sense of the overall Estimate and the priorities within it. My officials have provided the committee’s secretariat with...