Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 February 2023
152. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current number of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by him; and the date by which each study, review and research is scheduled to be completed, in tabular form. [9387/23]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe requested details in respect of live studies, reviews and research projects currently underway in the Department are set out in the table below:
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Name of Study/Review/research |
Expected completion date |
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Joint DETE-ESRI Research Programme: The Productivity Challenge and Its Interaction with Climate, Digitalisation and Human Capital |
End 2023 |
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Development of an Evidence Base to Support the Development of a National Clustering Policy and Framework |
Q1 2023 |
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OECD project “Quantifying Industrial Strategies” |
End of Q2 2023 |
|
Evaluation of State Supports for Equity Investment in Ireland |
24th July 2023 |
|
Internal - Finance for Scaling |
Early June 2023 |
|
Enterprise opportunities of Offshore Floating Wind Energy (commissioned on behalf of Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce) |
Completed February 2023 |
|
Assessment of Opportunities for Decarbonisation of Process Heat (commissioned on behalf of Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce) |
February 2023 |
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Assessment of Opportunities for Large Scale Rooftop PV Deployment (commissioned on behalf of Shannon Estuary Economic Taskforce) |
February 2023 |
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Provision of a North-West enterprise data repository (commissioned on behalf of the North-West Regional Enterprise Plan) |
30 April 2023 |
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Economic analysis of the agri-food sector in the North-East region (commissioned on behalf of the North-West Regional Enterprise Plan) |
30 March 2023 |
The Deputy may also be interested to note that my Department co-ordinates two annual surveys in conjunction with the enterprise agencies. The Annual Business Survey of Economic Impact (ABSEI) and the Annual Employment Survey (AES) are important measures of the impact of our investment in enterprise development.
