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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: We aim for consistency across our 31 local enterprise offices. One of the reasons we have models through our local enterprise offices in every local authority is because decarbonisation is as important in Donegal as it is in Dublin, Cork or Clare. I fully agree with what Deputy Bruton said about the success of group schemes. We need to learn from that. We as a Department are very much...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Questions Nos. 69 and 70 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Enterprise Support Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the importance of developing enterprise centres and workspaces, a new scheme of grant aid will be introduced to assist local authorities and community groups with such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43430/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if additional financial support will be made available to local authorities and community groups to develop enterprise centres or workspaces, taking into account the importance of such facilities in assisting job creation, especially in smaller towns and villages; if he is aware of the substantial costs on local authorities and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: The Minister of State will have heard me speak previously about the value of enterprise centres and the development of workspaces. Grant schemes are available to help develop such centres but they are not adequate, particularly for local authorities that have a low rates base. I appeal to the Minister of State to ensure there is an additional scheme of assistance to help those local...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71 and 76 together. Balanced regional enterprise development remains a key focus for me and for the Government, as affirmed in the White Paper on enterprise. I very much appreciate the contribution made by enterprise and remote working hubs throughout the country. These facilities allow people to live and work in their local communities and provide vital...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. The point I have been trying to get across to successive Ministers in the Department is, in the case of Cavan and Monaghan where we have a great culture of developing enterprise centres, typically the local authority or community group buys the site and develops the services at major cost because of the drumlin topography and soil in the area....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: Absolutely we will. I appreciate what he is saying, that up until now it has been the Cavan or Monaghan local authority that has been buying sites and developing those services. To reiterate, now that we have the smart regions scheme, it is there to support that dynamic of industry, academia and enterprise. Stream 1 of that is designed to support the major local investment and capital...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: I welcome the development of hubs, but I am specifically talking in this case about centres and workspace for manufacturing and processing. We have a great tradition of engineering in Cavan and Monaghan. I have worked along with companies that started with two or three employees in an enterprise space and now are huge employers, having developed their own space. We need the space to enable...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: I hear what the Deputy is saying, and absolutely we need to do more in this area. Part of the smart regions enterprise innovation scheme also looks at clustering. Perhaps that is something that might be relevant to the Deputy's constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, if, for example, there are manufacturing companies he feels could benefit from that. I hear what he is saying, that we need...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Services Sector (24 Oct 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope most examples will not be just in Ireland and the reaction to those types of fast practices. If advertising standards are to be complied with, the minimum or maximum price have to be advertised clearly. Very simply, we need to put in law what is the maximum price so that somebody purchasing a bedroom for a weekend or a concert ticket knows exactly what the price can go to. That is...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Services Sector (24 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I raised the issue of dynamic pricing with the Minister in February. At that stage, he said he did not have a concern on the basis that the CCPC had reported that the incidents were few. Even a few incidents would be a few too many. I am glad there is a realisation that there is in fact an issue. It is a pity that came off the back of complaints from people. As the Minister said, over a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Services Sector (24 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: I want to go back to the remarks of Deputy Ó Snodaigh. Dynamic pricing is used in many sectors and we have to make sure that in dealing with the consequences of one model we do not damage the other sectors that use it responsibly and in the best interests of the consumer. That is why the CCPC process will be of use to us. There is also work underway at European Commission level, which...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Services Sector (24 Oct 2024)
Question No. 67 answered with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Enterprise Support Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: 68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to develop the structure under which local enterprise offices operate so that centres of excellence could be developed for specialist sectoral support to be available on a regional basis, and inter-enterprise structures developed to evolve responses to collective problems that enterprises face; and if he will make...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: The Minister has extended the remit of the remit of local enterprise offices, LEOs. I come across a lot of enterprises which do not feel they have access to the specialist advice in each of the 31 LEOs. There needs to be regional centres of excellence. There is scope, in particular in areas like adaptation to green demands, for collaborative approaches in sectors.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: I thank the Deputy. I acknowledge and recognise the role he played in setting up so many LEOs for success up and down the country. As he will be aware, there are 31 LEOs and they play an important role at local level as part of a supportive ecosystem that provides services directly to small businesses and promotes entrepreneurship in towns and communities across the country. They are...