404. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number and approximate value of preferential and other shares held by his Department and separately by IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, in Irish companies or companies based in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16750/25]
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405. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government will host a competitiveness summit this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16828/25]
406. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that have been taken to develop an action plan on competitiveness and productivity within the first 12 months of this Government, as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16829/25]
407. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will publish the national semiconductor strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16830/25]
408. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take to develop a national life sciences strategy; if a consultative process in envisaged; the proposed timeline for the publication of this strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16831/25]
409. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE data analysts employed by IDA Ireland in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [16872/25]
410. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to support employment in Monaghan town following the closure of a business (details supplied) to ensure that vital employment it provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17016/25]
411. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17052/25]
412. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is currently planning to extend further start-up supports to non-manufacturing and non-export businesses. [17177/25]
413. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his Department’s work to encourage digitisation both within his own Department, and in businesses. [17178/25]
414. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how his Department is planning to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to ‘cut through unnecessary bureaucracy’ for businesses. [17179/25]
415. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider extending the Cost of Business Advisory Forum to holding local consultations and meetings, to ensure that localised factors that can highly impact businesses are recognised and taken into account. [17180/25]
416. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on their Department’s work to reform the employment conditions of those working in the gig-economy. [17181/25]
417. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what business grants supports for small business ratepayers will be introduced in 2025, and what the deadlines will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17251/25]
418. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to reopen the increased cost of business and Power Up portal for those businesses that were unsuccessful in applying, as promised in late 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17319/25]
419. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has any plans to amend the Casual Trading Act 1995 to include the provision of services; if so, the timeline for amendment of the 1995 Act to enable local authorities to make casual trading bye-laws for the provision of services in addition to goods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17331/25]
420. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) staff, that is Garda and civilian, that have resigned and or retired from their roles in the past three years to date; and the duration of time each had worked with the CEA before their departure. [17353/25]
421. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and or his officials are seeking details of the reason staff have left the Corporate Enforcement Agency; and if the Agency conducts exit interviews in respect of civilian and Garda staff that leave the agency. [17354/25]
422. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention, or that of his officials, has been drawn to the action of the CEO of the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) of putting on hold Garda recruitment to the CEA for a period of four months until the then Director of Criminal Enforcement resigned from their role. [17355/25]
423. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the gaps in resourcing of the Corporate Enforcement Agency that can only be filled by way of sworn Garda resources. [17356/25]
424. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of rescindments of the secondments of Gardaí from the Corporate Enforcement Agency in each of the past three years to date. [17357/25]
425. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the duration of the remaining contract for the Corporate Enforcement Agency’s CEO; and if he and or his officials are reviewing the structure of the leadership team at the Corporate Enforcement Agency. [17358/25]
426. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount his Department spent in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form on advertisement on a website (details supplied). [17391/25]
427. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has any vacant or derelict buildings in Dublin-Rathdown; to provide the addresses of these buildings and details on the length of time they have been derelict, in tabular form; and his plans to bring any vacant or derelict buildings back into use. [17475/25]
428. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to inve…