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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Middle East (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department is the National Competent Authority with responsibility for Export Controls, including Controls on defence-related exports and exports of dual-use goods. Ireland operates Export Controls to the highest standards, in accordance with EU law and international best practice. Dual-use items are products and components, including software and technology, that can be used for both...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: In 2022, the Low Pay Commission was asked to examine the issues around retaining or removing the sub-minimum youth rates of the National Minimum Wage and to make recommendations on the subject. The Low Pay Commission conducted an in-depth review of sub-minimum youth rates, and informed by stakeholder consultation and background research from ESRI on the incidence of sub-minimum rates,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: The ICOB grant scheme has now closed and payments are currently being made to eligible businesses by each Local Authority. The figures for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford are as at 9th July and are set out below: Carlow - 1169 business properties registered and €2,138,692 has been paid out to date. Kilkenny - 1704 business properties registered and €2,663,753 has...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages in the European Union was published on 19th October 2022 and must be transposed by 15th November 2024. The Directive aims to ensure that workers across the European Union are protected by adequate minimum wages allowing for a decent living wherever they work. The Directive includes three sets of measures: 1. One of the goals of the Directive is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: IDA Ireland is now in the final year of its 2021-24 strategy, “Driving Recovery and Sustainable Growth”, and has already achieved or is on track to achieve all targets set across the five strategic pillars of the strategy: Growth, Transformation, Regions, Sustainability, and Impact. The IDA 2024 Mid-Year results announced this week indicate a strong performance across foreign...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: I recognise the importance of businesses having a focus on human rights in their operations as there is a strong expectation from society to do so. Businesses have reacted well since Ireland launched its first National Plan on Business and Human Rights (2017 - 2020) towards the end of 2017. Ireland became the 19th state in the world to develop a National Plan. In December 2021, a review...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department continues to place significant importance in promoting Ireland as a destination for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and we work alongside IDA Ireland to strengthen Ireland’s business environment and FDI value proposition, and to identify and support strategic sectors. In 2024, Ireland ranked fourth place among 67 economies measured for their global competitiveness in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: This matter relates to the safeguard measures imposed by the EU on certain steel products which were initiated in July 2018 in response to the US Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium. The US measures applied a 25% tariff on steel imports originating from third countries, including the EU. This action by the US resulted in steel originally destined for the US being diverted to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 and 189 together. My Department, through Enterprise Ireland (EI), has been instrumental in fostering innovation among Irish companies. Enterprise Ireland’s strategy, and range of supports it offers underpins the robust environment for innovation, enabling Irish companies to grow and develop, and positioning Ireland as a world-leading location to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: Enterprise innovation is central to our national enterprise policy as set out in the White Paper on Enterprise, and is a pillar in the Government’s national innovation policy ‘Impact 2030’. It is a goal of my Department to encourage industry to invest in innovation so as to enhance productivity, business performance and competitiveness in international markets. This...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department compiles data on the enterprise development agencies (Enterprise Ireland, IDA and Údarás na Gaeltachta). The breakdown requested is not available economy-wide. Table 1 shows total employment gains, losses and net change in the services sector for all agency client companies. In the years 2019-2023 inclusive there have been 146,080 job gains, 89,957 job losses and a net...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: Table 1 shows employment in the manufacturing sector In Ireland for the years 2018-2023. In the five year period since 2018 total employment has increased by 38,100 jobs to reach 287,800 jobs in 2023. Data for 2024 is not yet available. Table 1: Employment in Manufacturing - 2018- 2023, €000s 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department compiles data on the enterprise development agencies (Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta). The breakdown requested is not available economy-wide. Table 1 shows employment in Irish owned enterprise agency client firms in the manufacturing sector. Over the five year period since 2018 total jobs have increased by 20,533 to reach 138,489 jobs in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: The total number of additional jobs created by IDA Ireland client companies from 2019 to 2023 inclusive is 46,950, bringing the total number of jobs in IDA client-companies to 300,583 at end 2023. For this year, IDA Ireland figures show that growth remains strong with IDA Ireland supporting a further 131 investments, 74 of which are planned for regional locations, enabling the future delivery...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: Ireland continues to be a location of choice for new Foreign Direct Investment and long-established FDI companies also choose to reinvest in substantial expansions of their operations in Ireland. In 2023, 248 investments were won by IDA Ireland, which will enable the creation of 19,000 jobs for the Irish economy. Of these, 132 investments, or 53%, were outside of Dublin, demonstrating IDA...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: Irish enterprises over the last number of years have faced significant challenges. My Department has been monitoring such developments in the business environment and in particular, developments in business costs. I recognise that firms have faced multiple crises alongside cost increases over the last number of years, including Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (11 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: My Department collaborates closely with IDA Ireland to ensure a strong continuing pipeline of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Ireland. To that end, Ireland’s proposition for FDI investment remains strong, as demonstrated by IDA’s results for the first half of 2024 where the IDA supported 131 investments, 74 of which are planned for regional locations, enabling the future...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: As the Deputy will appreciate, the response to the scale of the challenge posed by the advent of Covid -19 involved the whole of Government Departments, including my own Department who rolled out a panoply of targeted supports to assist businesses impacted by the affects of the pandemic. These supports included discrete schemes such as the Restart and the Restart Plus Grants, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (9 Jul 2024)

Peter Burke: As you know, the Local Authorities are administering the Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) scheme on behalf of my Department. Up to Friday 5th July, 81,241 businesses have registered for the ICOB scheme. and almost €122 million has been paid out to 58,722 eligible business owners. The Local Authorities are making payments to businesses once their information is verified. Variances...