145. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total annual payments by his Department to the climate action fund scheme, as required by virtue Circular 01/2020 (D/PER); an annual total of the payments in the past five years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [4953/25]
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146. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the move announced by the Department of Social Protection to commence changes in remote work practices on 1 February 2025 was solely confined to that Department; and if not, if any other Government Department issued a communication to all workers, group of workers or worker relating to changes in remote and flexible work arrangement…
147. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the appeal process relative to the increased cost of business and power up grants has been finalised; and if so, the date it will open. [5048/25]
148. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when his Department will issue an instruction to Kildare County Council to allow them to open the portal for businesses to change their classifications in relation to the increased cost of business grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5181/25]
149. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the provision being made to compensate small businesses and sole traders who had their premises and businesses closed due to Storm Éowyn, incurring substantial loss of earnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5184/25]
229. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the compensation and additional supports that will be provided to employees of companies currently involved in stocking and servicing self-service tobacco and vaping vending machines, who are at risk of losing their jobs when the ban under the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2024 takes effect on 31 August 202…
230. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the details of a scheme to assist businesses who suffered serious losses in recent storms will be published, in view of the serious losses suffered by these businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4013/25]
231. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expected timeline for the planned development of a new national AI strategy. [4065/25]
232. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on how the process for determining eligibility for digital grants and consultancy for SMEs will be reformed, as proposed in the Programme for Government, and if business groups will be included in consultations on the planned reforms. [4066/25]
233. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline his Department’s approach to ensuring that small businesses are helped to achieve basic digital intensity, towards the target of 90% by 2030. [4067/25]
234. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how his Department plans to promote the new grow digital voucher to SMEs. [4068/25]
235. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to publish the ministerial brief he received on commencing his role; and when and by what means it will be published. [4089/25]
236. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if any consideration has been given to the establishment of a sovereign large language model for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4119/25]
237. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a breakdown, by county, of IDA site visits for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4120/25]
238. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of companies or organisations to date that have availed of the Enterprise Ireland cyber security review grant; the total expenditure; and if he will make a statement more generally on cyber security for SMEs. [4121/25]
239. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the fines his Department or agencies under the aegis of his Department are paying to the EU for breaches of EU guidance, requirements, regulations, directives or laws. [4215/25]
240. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bi…
241. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his intentions regarding the reform of co-ops; and if he will bring the Cooperative Societies Bill 2022 before the Oireachtas in the near future. [4264/25]
242. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to account for the reason new businesses established in 2024 are not eligible for the power up grant; the reason the grant is linked to previous entitlement to the increased cost of business scheme; the steps, if any, that will be made to correct this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4301/25]
243. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a business (details supplied) has been excluded from eligibility to the power up grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4303/25]
244. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the salary scale that applies to the Secretary General of his Department; whether this scale has changed in the past year; whether there are proposals to change this scale in the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4315/25]
245. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA Ireland plans to have a trade mission to Australia during 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4459/25]
246. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of expenditure relating to IT external service provision in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, including the company name and amount expended with them, in tabular form. [4470/25]
247. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take action to resolve a situation involving the IDA (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4555/25]
248. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a decision on a visa application for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [4579/25]