Central
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Employment and labour market policies, including funding;
- Tax and welfare measures to encourage the movement from welfare to work;
- Training programmes and services through the Education and Training Boards;
- Enforcement of employment rights and entitlements, including Insurance-based Unemployment Benefit, Unemployment Assistance and Supplementary Welfare Allowance;
- The promotion of industrial peace and effective dispute resolution;
- Direct employment schemes (the most important being Community Employment).
National Employment Service (NES)[1])
- Support access to the labour market for jobseekers at local, regional and national level and assisting employers who are seeking to fill job vacancies;
- Employment Programmes, including employment and development programmes that focus on the integration/re-integration into the labour market of long-term unemployed and other marginalised people.
Enterprise Ireland
- Economic development agency focused on helping Irish-owned business deliver new export sales.
IDA Ireland
- The principal agency charged with attracting foreign direct investment to Ireland.
Enterprise Boards
- Support the starting up and growth of local business through the 31 dedicated teams across the Local Authority network in Ireland[2].
Responsible ministries/bodies
Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
IDA Ireland
Enterprise Boards
Enterprise Ireland
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Regional
Údarás na Gaeltachta[3]
- Facilitates community cooperatives and community development companies in the Gaeltacht;
- Supports businesses in developing new markets, technologies, products and strategic alliances through research and development.
Regional Assemblies
-
RSES (Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy) is a
regional expression of the national enterprise policy Enterprise 2025 Renewed.
It sets out regional policy objectives for the region and guides relevant
actors that support the development of the region. As a
statutorily based document, the RSES informs effective planning and investments
in placemaking throughout the region, which facilitates enterprise development
among other objectives.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Údarás na Gaeltachta
Regional Assemblies
Local
Participating in the Local Community Development
Committees[4] to develop, co-ordinate and implement a coherent
and integrated approach to local and community development[5].
Responsible ministries/bodies
City and county council
Sources
Constitution
of Ireland – BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN
Department
of Housing, Planning and Local Government
Department of Business, Enterprise and
Innovation
SOLAS
- Further Education and Training Authority
Local Government Act
1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) Order 2014 (SI 573 of 2014).
Local
Government Act, 2001, Number 37 of 2001 (as amended to 2016)
Local
Enterprise
Public Service Information – Citizens
Information
Údarás na Gaeltachta
[1] The NES operates nationally through 63 Local Employment Service offices which provide a fully integrated nationwide range of services and supports.
[2] https://www.localenterprise.ie/About-Us/ (accessed 27 May 2020).
[3] Údarás na Gaeltachta is the regional authority responsible for the economic, social and cultural development of the Gaeltacht.
[4]Section 36 of the
Local Government Reform Act 2014:
The membership of LCDCs includes members of the local authority, local
authority staff, representatives of public bodies which provide services in the
area; representatives of local community interests; local community
representatives; and representatives of publicly funded or supported local
development bodies. The majority of members must be from the non-statutory
sector.
[5] The
local economic and community plan must be consistent with the local development
plans made by the elected members and with the regional spatial and economic
strategies. The plan must be considered by the municipal district members and
approved by the council.
