Parliamentary questions

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Niamh Smyth

301. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the IDA last visited counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of new jobs that have been created by the IDA in the past 12 months; the steps it is taking to attract companies to counties Cavan and Monaghan; the success it has had with this strategy for counties Cavan and Monaghan, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6044/18]

IDA Ireland Jobs Data

Maurice Quinlivan

302. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA jobs created per county here in 2017 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6045/18]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

303. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts she is making to protect all stable staff involved in horse racing under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6069/18]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

304. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if discussions are expected to reclassify stable staff as agricultural workers further to the recent determination (details supplied) issued by the Labour Court into the classification of stable staff working in horse racing. [6070/18]

Enterprise Support Services Expenditure

Niamh Smyth

172. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the grant aid or funding available to assist a person (details supplied) to develop a business and bring a facility to County Cavan. [5072/18]

Industrial Property Portfolio

Brendan Smith

173. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when decisions are due to be made on the identification of suitable sites as locations for the establishment of data centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5078/18]

Industrial Property Portfolio

Brendan Smith

174. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if locations (details supplied) have been given further consideration as possible sites for the location of data centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5079/18]

Internal Audits

Catherine Murphy

175. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has completed an external quality assurance assessment of its internal audit function as required by the Institute of Internal Audit standards that were introduced in 2012 (details supplied). [5104/18]

Job Creation

Brendan Smith

176. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans and the plans of the State's industrial promotion agencies to assist in 2018 in the maintenance of existing employment and in job creation throughout County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5131/18]

Job Creation

Brendan Smith

177. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans and the plans of the State's industrial promotion agencies to assist in 2018 in the maintenance of existing employment and in job creation throughout County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5132/18]

Trade Agreements

Charlie McConalogue

178. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the reports that the European Commission is to propose a yearly tariff rate quota of 90,000 tonnes of beef, 20,000 tonnes more than offered in October 2017, to South American countries in the latest round of Mercosur negotiations; and if it will be ensured that a final deal in which a beef offer is a component will not be supported. [5168/18]

Job Creation Data

Maurice Quinlivan

179. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created by local enterprise office, LEO, companies in 2017; the net number of jobs created by LEO companies in 2017; and the number of jobs in LEO companies in 2017. [5235/18]

Job Creation Data

Niall Collins

180. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of information and communication technology workers that have been attracted to work here under the techlife portal scheme from abroad in each year since established. [5239/18]

Insurance Costs

Niall Collins

181. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe to implement the recommendations in the cost of business insurance report for which her Department has lead responsibility; and if she will list each such recommendation. [5241/18]

Brexit Issues

Niall Collins

182. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the research study commissioned by her department, Sectoral Implications Arising from Brexit: Most Exposed Sectors, is due to be completed and published. [5242/18]

Brexit Issues

Niall Collins

183. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the research study commissioned by her Department, Strategic Implications Arising from EU-UK Trading Patterns, is due to be completed and published. [5243/18]

Work Permits Data

Niall Collins

184. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of employment permits granted for non-EEA workers by her Department by occupation in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form. [5244/18]

Consumer Protection

Niall Collins

185. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the sectors that are under investigation by the CCPC for suspected anti-competitive or cartel activity. [5248/18]

Apprenticeship Data

Niall Collins

186. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons enrolled in apprenticeships in her Department and State agencies under her remit by gender in tabular form; and if she will list each such apprenticeship. [5250/18]

IDA Ireland Jobs Data

Michael McGrath

187. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the target number of jobs created in 2017 in the financial services sector by IDA Ireland; the number actually created; the target number to be created in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5277/18]

Brexit Issues

Tony McLoughlin

194. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to support calls for measures for local business in the Border counties in the event of a hard border after Brexit and-or an unfavourable trade agreement with a post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. [4742/18]

Ministerial Advisers Data

Shane Cassells

195. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the names of advisers she has appointed to her office since becoming Minister; the responsibilities of each; the previous employment of each; the salaries of each; and if she plans to make further appointments. [4861/18]

Quarrying Sector

Sean Fleming

324. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding blasting of rock with explosives in quarries; the guidelines issued to the relevant persons in relation to overseeing these matters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4369/18]

Brexit Issues

Bernard Durkan

325. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which she expects Ireland's trade with other countries to increase after Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4635/18]

Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding

Seán Sherlock

326. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount drawn down by Ireland from the Horizon 2020 fund to date; and the areas to which the funds have been allocated. [3993/18]

Research Funding Data

Seán Sherlock

327. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated spend on basic research nationally in a given year. [3994/18]

Economic Competitiveness

Niall Collins

328. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the latest National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2017; her plans to implement the policy recommendations which she has statutory remit for; and the timeframe for implementation. [4045/18]

Economic Competitiveness

Niall Collins

329. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a matter (details supplied) raised in the National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2017 on research, development and innovation. [4046/18]

Science Foundation Ireland Data

Niall Collins

330. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of research centres funded by Science Foundation Ireland in each of the years 2010 to 2017 in tabular form; the annual budget in this regard; and the 2018 budget allocation for same. [4047/18]

Departmental Strategies

Niall Collins

331. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the national policy statement on entrepreneurship; the number of actions completed and not completed, respectively; and the timeframe for implementation. [4048/18]

Co-operative Sector

Thomas P. Broughan

332. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of co-operatives operational; the number of persons employed in these co-ops; her plans to support and grow the co-op sector here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4147/18]

Co-operative Sector

Thomas P. Broughan

333. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the grants and funding streams available for co-operative start-ups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4148/18]

Work Permits Eligibility

Thomas Pringle

334. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the list of highly skilled and ineligible categories that applies to work permit applicants for asylum seekers will be reviewed in view of the fact that the current list indirectly discriminates against women (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4221/18]

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Eamon Scanlon

335. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA site visits that have taken place in each county over the past five years; the confirmed visits to take place in each county in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4266/18]

Departmental Funding

Seán Sherlock

336. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of Exchequer funding expended on a project (details supplied); the details of the expenditure; and the number of staff directly or indirectly supported by the existence of this facility. [4275/18]

Public Private Partnerships Data

Pearse Doherty

337. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the public private partnerships her Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; the nature of each project in terms of design, build, maintain and so on, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4428/18]

Brexit Issues

Stephen Donnelly

338. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if contingency planning has started for the implications of Brexit on data held by InterTradeIreland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4446/18]

Trade Union Recognition

Maurice Quinlivan

339. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) in County Limerick that is in receipt of public funds is refusing to recognise a union as the chosen trade union of persons. [4468/18]

Trade Union Recognition

Maurice Quinlivan

340. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to introduce a legal requirement for employers to recognise authorised trade unions in receipt of a negotiating licence for the purposes of collective bargaining and disciplinary matters. [4469/18]

Ministerial Expenditure

Maurice Quinlivan

341. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the details of her expenses have not been uploaded to her Department’s website since July 2017; and her plans to ensure these are made available. [4470/18]

Job Creation Data

Fergus O'Dowd

342. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide the figures raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4542/18]

Departmental Staff Retirements

Peter Burke

343. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of her Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4969/18]

Brexit Issues

Bernard Durkan

111. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which she continues to establish new trade links with a view to post-Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3915/18]

IDA Ireland Data

Niall Collins

112. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 11 October 2016, the available IDA lands at the end of quarter 4 2017; the occupied IDA lands at the end of quarter 4 of 2017, by county and town, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3852/18]

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Niall Collins

113. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when quarter 4 2017 IDA site visits data will be available. [3853/18]

Joint Labour Committees

Niall Collins

114. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the joint labour committees in operation per sector, in tabular form. [3855/18]

State Aid

Niall Collins

115. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the remit of the state aid modernisation working group; her plans for the SAM working group which will take place here in April 2018; and if draft proposals have been submitted by member states with respect to changing current state aid thresholds at EU level. [3856/18]

Civil Service Staff Data

Niall Collins

116. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of full time and part time civil servants working in the state aid unit by administrative grade. [3857/18]

Brexit Issues

Niall Collins

117. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the €300 million Brexit loan scheme fund announced in budget 2018 for SME businesses will open for applications; the length of time the fund will remain open for applications; the criteria for applying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3858/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement

Niall Collins

118. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to publish an account of the investigative failures of a trial (details supplied) identified by a person; and the steps that are being taken to address same. [3859/18]