1179. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment in light of soaring energy costs if he will consider introducing more flexible payment mechanisms for grants administered by his Department and Local Enterprise Offices, including the option of upfront payments, front-loaded funding or staged instalments, rather than relying solely on retrospective claims; and if he will make a s…
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1180. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will consider increasing the level of support available under the energy efficiency grant and other grants administered by his Department and Local Enterprise Offices from the current 75% to 100%, in order to better support small and medium-size enterprises facing soaring energy costs the estimated cost associated with this…
1181. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the location of the Health and Safety Authority's public offices; if each of these offices are accessible to people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26304/26]
1182. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment for an update on progress of recommendation no. 40 of the Action Plan for Competitiveness & Productivity on incentivising pension fund and institutional investor participation in the financing of scaling Irish enterprise. [26313/26]
1183. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the reason and the amount retail shops can charge in terms of the surcharge that is applied to customers who top up on gas, electricity and mobile credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26395/26]
1184. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his views on concerns (details supplied) regarding planned changes to short-term letting legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26479/26]
1185. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide clarity on the changes to rules on short-term lettings; and if the EU’s short-term rental registry requirement also requires short-term letting properties to seek planning permission; and if this is an additional requirement put in place through Irish legislation. [26596/26]
1186. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of work permits issued to persons from outside the UK and EEA intending to take up positions of dentists in the each of the years 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [26662/26]
1187. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment If Failte Ireland plans to open their tourism information offices on Sundays in major towns and cities during the peak summer months. [26683/26]
1188. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment whether a company (details supplied) has received any supports financial and otherwise from State Agencies including IDA and Enterprise Ireland. [26700/26]
1189. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will address concerns regarding statutory sick pay and its impact on shift workers in the care sector, raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26757/26]
1190. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all studies and reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, that were composed and delivered by third parties (details supplied); the title and final cost of same; and whether the report is published and or laid in the Houses of the Oireachtas. [2…
1191. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all studies and reports commissioned by him in each of the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, that were composed and delivered by his officials; the title and final cost of same, if applicable; to provide a breakdown of where costs were incurred; and whether the report is published and or la…
1192. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide the web link to his Department’s Q1 2026 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; to confirm the date on which this report was published; and, if it has not yet been published, to state the planned publication date. [26907/26]
1193. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his plans to increase the number of public holidays here to align more closely with European averages. [26937/26]
1194. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his views on the need for more public holidays here to align more closely with European averages; the need to ensure that annual leave provision redresses this gap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26940/26]
1195. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of aggregated military licences granted in in each of the years 2024, 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, by destination; and their value, in tabular form. [27022/26]
1196. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to provide an estimate of the total volume of data currently stored by or on behalf of the State by his Department in data centres in Ireland, data centres outside of Ireland but within the European Union;, data centres outside of the European Union and data storage facilities within his own Department; and if he will make a statemen…
1197. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the grants that are available to an individual looking to start their first business in purchasing and renovating a food truck; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27240/26]
1198. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment when it is planned to submit the general scheme of a Bill to update the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 to the Oireachtas Committee for pre-legislative scrutiny. [27258/26]
234. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his current plans to advance the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 currently at committee stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23144/26]
235. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to outline in detail the impact of US direct foreign investment in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23304/26]
236. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment for an update on the legislative passage of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 202; when the Bill will receive a money message; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23165/26]
237. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if there are any instances, apart from the specifically outlined cases of horticulture workers, meat processor operatives, health care assistants, home support workers and where an applicant’s degree was issued by an Irish third level college in the previous 12 months, where the minimum annual remuneration for the provision of a gener…
238. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his views on the aims of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; if work is ongoing within his Department with regard to achieving the same objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23197/26]