Parliamentary questions

Health and Safety Authority

Róisín Shortall

228. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of requests for additional funding, staff resources or expertise that have been made by the Health and Safety Authority since January 2016; the purpose of the requested additional funding, staff resources or expertise; the response of her Department to each request in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13136/18]

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

Róisín Shortall

229. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of requests for additional funding, staff resources or expertise that have been made by the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority since January 2016; the purpose of the requested additional funding, staff resources or expertise; the response of her Department to each request in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13137/18]

Labour Court

Róisín Shortall

230. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of requests for additional funding, staff resources or expertise that have been made by the Labour Court since January 2016; the purpose of the requested additional funding, staff resources or expertise; the response of her Department to each request in tabular from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13138/18]

Vacant Properties

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

231. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the suite of measures and supports she has available and plans to introduce to encourage existing businesses and new business start-ups take up live occupancy of vacant commercial properties that are having an impact on the viability of existing enterprises along the urban streetscapes and other shopping and commercial zones. [13025/18]

Ministerial Staff Data

Róisín Shortall

232. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the details of each non-Civil Service appointment she has made to a role in her Department; the persons appointed; the role, qualifications and salary of each; and the guidelines that apply in respect of party political fundraising. [13152/18]

IDA Ireland Jobs Data

James Browne

233. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the percentage of IDA Ireland-supported jobs in the south east as a proportion of all IDA Ireland-supported jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13187/18]

Action Plan for Jobs

James Browne

234. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the regions that have not met their regional Action Plan for Jobs target; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13189/18]

Industrial Relations

Willie O'Dea

377. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason an association (details supplied) would not be afforded protections under the Industrial Relations Act 1990 if it engaged in withdrawal of services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12171/18]

Trade Missions Data

Maurice Quinlivan

378. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the destinations of each trade mission undertaken in each of the years 2014 to 2017; the Ministers who travelled on each trade mission; and the cost of each trade mission, in tabular form. [12337/18]

Trade Missions Data

Maurice Quinlivan

379. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the companies that travelled on each separate trade mission in 2017, in tabular form. [12338/18]

Trade Missions Data

Maurice Quinlivan

380. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which companies are chosen to participate in trade missions abroad. [12339/18]

Trade Missions Data

Maurice Quinlivan

381. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of departmental and governmental officials that travelled on each trade mission in 2017. [12340/18]

Departmental Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

382. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the cost to her Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under her aegis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11730/18]

Departmental Advertising Expenditure

Catherine Murphy

383. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns from January 2017 to date in 2018, by year, month and company engaged in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11760/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations

Maurice Quinlivan

384. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the account of the investigative failures will be identified in an investigation (details supplied) by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, will be published. [11837/18]

Departmental Staff Data

Dara Calleary

385. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in her Department that entered the Civil Service via a route other than through an open competition run by the Public Appointments Service or its predecessors; the grades of each; and the basis for the non-standard recruitment. [11851/18]

Public Sector Staff Remuneration

David Cullinane

386. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of her Department for the days during Storm Emma when staff were directed to stay at home; if deductions in pay and annual leave were made to staff in the public sector or Civil Service as a result of days lost during the storm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11868/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement

Maurice Quinlivan

387. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the effectiveness of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. [11903/18]

Employment Rights

Kevin O'Keeffe

388. Deputy Kevin O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if there is a scheme that provides assistance to employers who must pay their employees when absent from work when there is a red alert climate warning in place. [11965/18]

Legislative Programme

Maurice Quinlivan

389. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the publication of the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11998/18]

Departmental Reports

Maurice Quinlivan

390. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has engaged or had correspondence with a person (details supplied) in her preparation of her report into the investigative failures in relation to an investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12046/18]

Work Permits Data

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

391. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for employment permits from asylum seekers that have been made in the past month; and the number of successful applications. [12065/18]

Casual Trading Regulations

Robert Troy

392. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she will take to regulate car boot sales; the licensing of traders at such sales; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12287/18]

Brexit Issues

Niall Collins

393. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the detail of each specific EU Competitiveness Council ministers' meeting in which she or her predecessors made the case for the need of a revision of state aid rules to protect Irish enterprises and related jobs during the UK’s two year exit phase from the EU and subsequent transition phase; the date of each meeting in which this was raised in tabular form; the progress made at EU level to increase state aid thresholds to support Irish enterprises in a hard Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12295/18]

Brexit Issues

Niall Collins

394. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she instructed her officials to submit proposals for changing the current state aid thresholds at EU level ahead of the next state aid modernisation working group meeting which takes place here on 27 April 2018; and her plans on same in advance order to protect Irish enterprises, exporting companies and related jobs from a hard Brexit World Trade Organization, WTO, scenario and other negative trading scenarios as outlined in the recent Copenhagen economics report. [12296/18]

Brexit Issues

Niall Collins

395. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will request at European level changes to state aid thresholds at EU level in order to protect Irish enterprises, exporting companies and related jobs from a hard Brexit World Trade Organization, WTO, scenario following the EU Council's draft guidelines published on 7 March 2018 in which it confirmed that due to the UK’s position of refusing customs union and Single Market solutions the UK is hurtling towards third country status. [12297/18]

Work Permits Applications

Seán Sherlock

396. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the critical skills permit. [12329/18]

Industrial Relations

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

397. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 16 November 2017, her views on a situation in which a complainant is left without a decision, remedy or route to pursue a grievance through industrial relations mechanisms of the State, with particular reference to a case (details supplied). [12406/18]

Industrial Relations

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

398. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 16 November 2017, if there are potential defects in the industrial relations mechanisms of the State, including the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court, by which a complainant may possibly end up without a decision made on a grievance, with particular reference to a case (details supplied). [12407/18]

Office of Government Procurement

Alan Kelly

399. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department or agencies under its aegis have received reports or representations in respect of the impact on small and medium-sized enterprises of decisions made by the Office of Government Procurement; and if so, the action she has taken in respect of same. [12469/18]

Office of Government Procurement

Alan Kelly

400. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the disquiet among small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in the supply of goods and services to State entities of the impact on them of decisions made regarding the awarding of contracts by the Office of Government Procurement. [12470/18]

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Niamh Smyth

401. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits conducted by IDA Ireland in counties Cavan and Monaghan in each of the past three years; and the number of these visits that were to locations in the two county towns and other areas of the counties, respectively in tabular form. [12678/18]

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Niamh Smyth

402. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland visits of prospective clients to each county in each of the years 2013 to 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12679/18]

IDA Ireland Data

Niamh Smyth

403. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland supported jobs at the end of each year from 2013 to 2017, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12680/18]

IDA Ireland Data

Niamh Smyth

404. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland supported jobs; the number of jobs created and lost respectively in 2017, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12681/18]

Ticket Touting

Maurice Quinlivan

405. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the company representatives her Department has met with regarding ticket touting and ticket touting legislation since the beginning of 2016; the number of meetings held with each company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12710/18]

Strategic Communications Unit

Niall Collins

406. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if meetings have taken place between her departmental officials and advisers and State agencies under her remit with the strategic communications unit in the Department of the Taoiseach towards achieving this objective following the publication of Enterprise 2025 Renewed and the commitment given to accelerate efforts to diversify source markets for foreign direct investment supported by stronger cross-Government strategic communications; and the budget allocation for this objective in 2018. [12730/18]

Strategic Communications Unit

Niall Collins

407. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of meetings she, her departmental officials and advisers and State agencies under her remit have had with the strategic communications unit, SCU, of the Department of the Taoiseach regarding the plans by the SCU to coordinate a national Brexit preparedness public information and awareness campaign in 2018 as confirmed in Enterprise 2025 Renewed; the specific departmental budget allocated towards this objective in 2018; and the amount expended to date. [12731/18]

Employment Data

Niall Collins

408. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the target of having 2.3 million persons in employment by 2020 means attaining this figure at 1 January 2020 or before the end of the 2020 calendar year, that is, 31 December 2020, following the publication of Enterprise 2025 Renewed. [12732/18]

Economic Competitiveness

Niall Collins

409. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason page 41 of Enterprise 2025 Renewed ranks Ireland number six of the most competitive small countries in the world using the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking in view of the fact that the 2018 table ranks Lithuania, Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, New Zealand, Singapore, Denmark, Norway and Finland ahead of Ireland. [12733/18]

Economic Competitiveness

Niall Collins

410. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason Enterprise 2025 and the Action Plan for Jobs 2018 are using two different competitiveness ranking targets to be achieved by 2020; if the Enterprise 2025 target takes precedence as reaffirmed in Enterprise 2025 Renewed; and her views on whether the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking of 190 countries is a better gauge than the IMD competitiveness scorecard ranking in view of the fact this only covers 61 countries globally. [12734/18]

Employment Data

Niall Collins

411. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the revised employment targets for each year up to 2020 and for the remainder of Enterprise 2025, in tabular form. [12737/18]

Enterprise Ireland Investments

Niall Collins

412. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide an overview of Enterprise Ireland’s capital investment initiative; and the number of small and medium enterprises that have applied to the initiative in each year since it was established in tabular form. [12743/18]

Enterprise Ireland

Niall Collins

413. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide an overview of Enterprise Ireland’s Prepare For Brexit campaign; and the annual budget allocated in each year since the campaign was established. [12744/18]

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Reports

Niall Collins

414. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the report by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on the use of personal contract plans in the car finance market; and her further views on the recommendations including a public information and awareness campaign to be rolled out to ensure consumers are fully aware of their rights and obligations. [12745/18]

Trade Agreements

Niall Collins

415. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a European Court judgment (details supplied); if this judgment relating to bilateral investment treaties between European Union, EU, member states has no impact on EU trade agreements with third countries relating to arbitration; if Ireland is no longer party to bilateral investment treaties with other EU countries; and the number of such bilateral investment treaties that remain in the EU. [12746/18]

Ministerial Meetings

Thomas P. Broughan

416. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when she last met formally with the chief executive officer and chairperson of Enterprise Ireland; when she will next meet formally with the chief executive officer and chairperson; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12890/18]

National Development Plan Data

Niall Collins

417. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under her Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and the estimated completion dates for each project in tabular form. [12983/18]

Trade Promotion

Bernard Durkan

234. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which Irish embassies or trade missions abroad are actively engaged in establishing new contacts and markets with particular reference to the need to cater for the aftermath of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11574/18]

Trade Promotion

Bernard Durkan

235. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which her Department has redoubled its efforts to establish new markets inside and outside the European Union for Irish products in order to compensate for the consequences of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11580/18]

Trade Agreements

Bernard Durkan

236. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the progress in respect of other transatlantic trade agreements with the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11582/18]

Work Permits Applications

Tony McLoughlin

237. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the reason an employment permit in respect of a person (details supplied) was refused on the basis of the company not being registered with the CRO despite the fact that the company is not a PLC and does not need to be registered as such; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10875/18]

IDA Ireland Portfolio

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony

238. Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the available IDA lands at the end of quarter 4 of 2017 in County Cork; the occupied IDA lands at the end of quarter 4 of 2017 in County Cork by town in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10880/18]

EU Directives

James Lawless

239. Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the EU directives not yet transposed into law; the deadline imposed by the EU for the transposition of same; the estimated date for the transposition into law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11053/18]

Employment Rights

Michael McGrath

240. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the proposed sectorial employment order (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11055/18]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

James Browne

241. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the funding has been set aside in each of the past five years to address the issue of loneliness and social isolation in the SME sector; if her Department or agencies under the remit of her Department have funded research on the topic of loneliness and social isolation; if her Department or agencies under the remit of her Department have projects planned which would address the issues of loneliness or social isolation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11258/18]

Workplace Relations Commission

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business; Enterprise and Innovation if she has satisfied herself that breaches of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 identified by NERA in 2010 regarding sleep over shifts in the social care sector have been adequately resolved and that employees affected have been fully compensated for underpayments. [11365/18]

Workplace Relations Commission

Clare Daly

243. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business; Enterprise and Innovation the levels of underpayment of minimum wage to employees working sleep over shifts in the social care sector which were established by NERA in each of the years 2010 to 2017 respectively; and the level of repayment of arrears which has been secured by the inspectorate on behalf of employees affected. [11366/18]

Workplace Relations Commission

Clare Daly

244. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business; Enterprise and Innovation the measures taken between 2010 and 2017 to ensure against breaches of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 in the social care sector specifically with reference to sleep over shift payments; the further steps she plans to take in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11367/18]

Workplace Relations Commission

Clare Daly

245. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business; Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 20 February 2018, the proportion of the unpaid wages recouped for employees which applies to the social care sector in which employees were underpaid for sleep over shifts. [11368/18]

Work Permits Applications

Michael McGrath

246. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of a work permit application by a person (details supplied). [11397/18]

Examinership Arrangements

Charlie McConalogue

247. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the examinership process under way for a company (details supplied); if assistance to subcontractors in financial difficulty will be provided in view of debts owed to them by this company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11457/18]

Work Permits Applications

Éamon Ó Cuív

248. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when a decision will issue to an application by a company (details supplied) for a critical skills employment permit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11532/18]

Weather Events Response

Niall Collins

249. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the funding supports she will make available to companies and SMEs whose premises and trade were severely damaged by Storm Emma; and if State agencies under her remit have been deployed to advise on supports available. [11609/18]

Court Judgments

Niall Collins

250. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by Judge Aylmer; and the steps that are being taken to address the matter emanating from a trial (details supplied). [11610/18]

Departmental Staff Data

Brendan Howlin

251. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff assigned in her Department to the press office, public relations or communications roles in each year since 2015; the positions by staffing grade and designated role; when each new position came into existence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11696/18]

Departmental Staff Recruitment

Brendan Howlin

252. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if a panel has been established in her Department for communications officers; if a Civil Service position of head of communications or similar role or description has been appointed in her Department; if so, when the appointment occurred; the grade at which it occurred; the reason for same; the policy basis for same; the person that approved the appointment; her plans to make such an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11712/18]

Departmental Advertising Campaigns

Róisín Shortall

111. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the details of each instance of advertorial content commissioned by her Department and agencies under its remit in the past 12 months; the date this content was published; the purpose of this content; the cost of its publication; the publication or platform on which it was published, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10766/18]

Local Enterprise Offices Data

Niall Collins

112. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 152 and 153 of 18 January 2018, if the final 2017 data is available as per the outstanding data indicated in the reply. [10820/18]

Brexit Supports

Niall Collins

113. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department requested at EU level a Brexit adjustment support fund within the EU’s structural and investment funds to mitigate the negative exposure of companies from a hard Brexit. [10821/18]

Action Plan for Jobs

Niall Collins

114. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the 2018 Action Plan for Jobs will be published. [10822/18]

Employment Data

Niall Collins

115. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the latest employment projections for the 2020 to 2025 period at national and regional level for the remaining period of Enterprise 2025. [10823/18]

Trade Promotion

Niall Collins

116. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has a strategy in place to increase south-east Asia investment and export opportunities and increasing enterprise opportunities in the region; the details of all trade missions to the region by her Department in each of the years 2011 to 2017; and the trips planned in 2018, in tabular form. [10824/18]

Jobs Protection

Niall Collins

117. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10825/18]

Enterprise 2025

Niall Collins

118. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the review of Enterprise 2025 in view of Brexit and potential policy changes under the new American administration; and when the review will be completed and published. [10826/18]

National Development Plan

James Lawless

137. Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the year in which Ireland is likely to meet the relevant research and development national income targets as a result of the NDP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10427/18]

Departmental Meetings

Niall Collins

138. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the newspapers her Department officials have engaged with in promoting or explaining Government business in her Department; when these meetings took place; if they are held on a regular basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10287/18]

Freedom of Information Data

Stephen Donnelly

358. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of freedom of information requests her Department has received in the past eight years; the number of which were accepted without further escalation and not accepted respectively; the number requested which were not accepted that were escalated to the Information Commissioner; the number of which the Information Commissioner ruled in favour of the person requesting the freedom of information; the number of which the Information Commissioner ruled against her Department; the number her Department appealed to the High Court; the number the High Court ruled against her Department in favour of the applicant; the number which were then brought to the Court of Appeal by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9286/18]

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Kevin O'Keeffe

359. Deputy Kevin O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits made to specific locations (details supplied) in County Cork in the past five years, in tabular form. [9326/18]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Frank O'Rourke

360. Deputy Frank O'Rourke asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the specific actions that will be taken to assist the SME sector to prepare for Brexit, in particular food companies such as those based in County Kildare, following the publication of the national development plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9389/18]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Pearse Doherty

361. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2018 to 2022; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years. [9512/18]

Job Creation

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

362. Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the level of expenditure by Enterprise Ireland and the local enterprise office in counties Offaly, Laois, Longford and Westmeath to promote job creation and the establishment of new businesses and enterprises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9641/18]

Company Closures

Eamon Scanlon

363. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the measures being undertaken by her Department to address business closures in Sligo town; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9725/18]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Fiona O'Loughlin

364. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the contingencies and supports in place to safeguard small and medium enterprises, SMEs, and export businesses from a hard Brexit scenario including revision of state aid rules; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9796/18]

Departmental Expenditure

Brendan Howlin

365. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the cost to her Department of attending the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2018; the costs incurred by travel, accommodation, attendance fees and other items; the names of those that attended paid for by her Department; the individual costs attached to each and all other sundry costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9806/18]

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Legal Cases

Maurice Quinlivan

366. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons brought to court by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [9815/18]

Industrial Development

Sean Fleming

367. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the projects the IDA has in 2018 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9821/18]

Enterprise Ireland Investments

Dara Calleary

368. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken by Enterprise Ireland to foster the development of the augmented reality and virtual reality industries here; the companies that are supported; her plans to address the expansion in the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10045/18]

IDA Ireland Data

Dara Calleary

369. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken by the IDA to attract companies operating in the augmented reality and virtual reality sectors to invest here; the investment that has been successfully secured in the sector; her plans to attract future investment opportunities in view of the expansion of the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10046/18]

Enterprise Ireland Data

Dara Calleary

370. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the interaction Enterprise Ireland has had with an event (details supplied); the support it has provided to this event which attracts significant interest throughout the national and international augmented reality and virtual reality sectors; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Invest NI was among the supporters of this event; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10047/18]

IDA Ireland Data

Dara Calleary

371. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the interaction the IDA has had with an annual conference (details supplied); the support it has provided to this event which attracts significant interest throughout the national and international augmented reality and virtual reality sectors; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Invest NI was among the supporters of this event; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10048/18]

Enterprise Ireland Investments

Dara Calleary

372. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the conferences and events focused on augmented reality and virtual reality Enterprise Ireland has been involved in; the plans for participation by Enterprise Ireland in these events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/18]

IDA Ireland Data

Dara Calleary

373. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the conferences and events focused on augmented reality and virtual reality the IDA has been involved in; the plans for participation by the IDA in these events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10050/18]

Brexit Issues

Micheál Martin

374. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the role her Department's officials have in coordinating the response from businesses, particularly in the Border area, to prepare for Brexit. [9656/18]

IDA Ireland

Joan Burton

375. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the identification of a replacement industry for a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10136/18]

Departmental Reports

Micheál Martin

119. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the Copenhagen economic report; and the role her Department officials will have in responding to same. [8467/18]

Brexit Supports

Fiona O'Loughlin

120. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the contingencies and supports in place to safeguard Irish small and medium-sized enterprises and export businesses from a hard Brexit scenario, including revision of state aid rules; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8894/18]

Brexit Supports

Fiona O'Loughlin

121. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of businesses that have taken up Brexit business supports, such as the be prepared grants and Brexit readiness vouchers provided by Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland. [8895/18]

Brexit Issues

Fiona O'Loughlin

122. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the status of Brexit-related supports for enterprise and farming, including relaxation of State aid rules, European and Irish grant funding and in market supports in the EU 26 for businesses seeking to increase trade. [8896/18]

Enterprise Ireland Funding

Pearse Doherty

123. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the companies that received aid under the Enterprise Ireland stabilisation fund; the amount each company received; the ex-post analysis of the scheme that has been carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8909/18]