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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Consultations (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The responses to the public consultation process (which was launched on 20 January 2017 with a deadline of 31 March for submissions) were published on my Department’s website on 9 May 2017. These responses contain a considerable amount of interesting and informative material about the organisation of major entertainment and sporting events and the operation of the primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: As was announced previously, my Department will be commissioning an independent review of the Succeed-in-Ireland programme. That review, which will be carried out after details of the initiative’s full and final costs are available, will equip us with a thorough understanding of the programme’s results and its contribution to employment generation in the State. The terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (11 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Apart from significant losses to the Exchequer that can arise from cases of so-called bogus self-employment, the practice has serious implications from an employment rights perspective. In this respect, it is important that individuals are correctly designated regarding their employment status so that those who ought to be designated as employees are not deprived of their employment rights....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Copyright Infringement (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: In general, playing music in public places is an act that is governed by copyright law.  The relevant legislation is the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (the CRRA). This legislation gives the owners of copyright works, which includes musical works, certain rights over the use of their works.  If covered by copyright, the act of making the musical work available in public is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I understand that the Deputy raised the matter of the possible misuse of the trainee system in the film industry in the context of the film tax relief scheme in a recent Dail Question to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, who has responsibility in this area. I understand further that the Minister asked the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Deputy as previously advised, the Inspection and Enforcement Services of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) monitor employment conditions to ensure compliance with and, where necessary, the enforcement of employment rights legislation. Prior to 1 June last, SI No. 417 of 2015 Employment Regulation Order (Security Industry Joint Labour Committee) 2015, which came into operation on 1...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: IDA Ireland maintains statistics of site visits by potential investors on a quarterly basis only. In the first quarter of 2017, there were 173 site visits, up from 136 for the same period in 2016.  It is expected that data on site visits for quarter two 2017 will be available at the end of this month.  The table sets out, on a county-by-county basis, the number of IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Programme for Partnership Government commitment is to support the creation of 200,000 jobs by 2020, including 135,000 jobs outside of Dublin.   Regional job creation targets have been set through the Regional Action Plan for Jobs, the primary objective of which is to have a further 10 to 15 per cent at work in each region by 2020, with the aim, as set out in Enterprise 2025, of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table: Implementation Committee Mid-East Midlands Mid-West North East North West West South West South East Dublin Total number of members 32 36 35 35 38 40 39 56 35 Female members 14 11 15 8 7 11 18 16 10 Male members 18 25 20 27 31 29 21 40 25 Established (date of first meeting) 15 July 2016 2 March 2016 9 March 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 62 to 64, inclusive, together. A key feature of regional trade agreements, which comprise of customs unions, free trade agreements (“FTAs”), economic partnership agreements (“EPAs”), and bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”) is the provision for the settlement of disputes between the state parties concerning the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Waste Management (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is the statutory independent body responsible for the enforcement of domestic and EU competition law in the State.  Section 9 (5) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 provides that the CCPC is independent in the performance of its functions. I, as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, have no direct function...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unfair Dismissals (6 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: With effect from 1 October 2015, the activities of the Labour Relations Commission, the National Employment Rights Authority, the Equality Tribunal and the first instance functions of the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Labour Court were merged into a new Body of First Instance, known as the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).  From 1 October 2015, all complaints fall to be...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Film Industry (5 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 73 and 74 together. There may be a number of reasons why certain types of employment contracts are used in the film sector, responsibility for which comes within the remit of my colleague the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. However, from an employment rights point of view, Ireland has a comprehensive body of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services Provision (5 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: IDA Ireland's strategy for 2015-2019 includes a commitment to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) in every region outside of Dublin by 30% to 40%. The Agency has already made good progress towards achieving this goal with Wexford performing particularly well. This is reflected in net job gains with FDI jobs in the county increasing from 2,486 in 2015 to 2,630 in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (5 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by IDA Ireland that it has appointed Jacobs Engineering to undertake a study to identify potential strategic land banks in Ireland that would be particularly suitable to accommodate the sustainable development of large scale Data Centre projects. The study is being undertaken to ensure that all regions in Ireland, including Westmeath which is part of the Midlands Region,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (4 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 69 together. On 15 February 2017, the European Parliament gave its consent to the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Provisional application is a standard part of EU trade agreements and allows only those parts of the agreement for which the EU has competence to be provisionally applied, pending the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Promotion (4 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: Enterprise Ireland and IDA currently consider that, given the competing demands on limited resources, they can best manage the needs of their clients in China, including those in Taiwan, from their offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Enterprise Ireland currently serves Taipei and Taiwan markets from its offices in Hong Kong and the Manager visits both countries 3...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Data (4 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Companies Registration Office (CRO) is the statutory authority for registering companies in Ireland and is the central repository of public statutory information on Irish companies. As of the end of June 2017, the number of Irish companies on the register of companies was 209,886.  The number of external companies on the register of companies was 2,706, comprising 1,842 European...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Schemes (4 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: As was announced previously, my Department will soon be commissioning an independent review of the Succeed-in-Ireland programme. That review, which will be carried out after details of the initiative’s full and final costs are available, will equip us with a thorough understanding of the programme’s results and its contribution to employment generation in the State. This is in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Schemes (4 Jul 2017)

Frances Fitzgerald: My Department has run various community enterprise schemes, via Enterprise Ireland, since 1989. A number of projects in Dublin south west have been successful in receiving funding under these schemes. Community Enterprise Centre Scheme Since the launch of the first Community Enterprise Centre (CEC) scheme in 1989, €64 million has been approved by Enterprise Ireland for the development...