Press Releases

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, will tomorrow (Thursday)co-chair a meeting of the EU's Employment and Social Policy Council in Luxembourg with Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD. This is the final EPSCO Council of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The EU Commission will be represented by Commissioner Laszlo Andor and Commission Vice-President, Ms Viviane Reding.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD today [Wednesday] signed the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances on behalf of the EU at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva.

Speaking in Geneva today (Tuesday), where he is chairing an informal meeting of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs taking place alongside the 102nd International Labour Conference, jointly organised by the ILO and the Irish Presidency of the European Union, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, said:

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, is today (Monday) in Brussels to brief the EU Parliament on Friday's historic agreement at the EU Trade Council on a mandate to start talks with the US on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

An informal meeting of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs took place alongside the 102nd International Labour Conference in Geneva today. At this meeting, jointly organized by the ILO and the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, participating Ministers agreed the importance of actions in support of Convention 189 on improving the working conditions of Domestic Workers.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today (Friday) secured agreement among EU Trade Ministers that will enable the start of negotiations between the EU-US on a new trade deal.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today (Friday) welcomed new merchandise trade figures published by the CSO which show that goods exports in April are up 6% on the same month in 2012.

Minister Bruton is encouraging his fellow EU Trade Ministers to seize the opportunity to boost EU jobs and growth by agreeing at tomorrow's (Friday 14th June) EU Trade Council to allow the start of EU-US trade talks.

The Minister for Small Business, John Perry TD, announced today (Thursday) that a team of students from Cork Institute of Technology has been named 'College Entrepreneur of the Year 2013'. The students won the prestigious top prize of €10,000 at this year's Enterprise Ireland Think Outside the Box Awards, with their project MasTech™. This year celebrates the 31st year of the prestigious awards, which are co-sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland, Cruickshank Intellectual Property Attorneys, Intel and Grant Thornton.

EMC® today (Thursday) announced the creation of 200 highly skilled jobs over the next two years and the opening of a new EMC office as part of a fresh €100 million investment in Ireland. The new full-time positions, spanning engineering, customer support, sales, finance, research and development and IT, will be based in a new EMC office in Citygate, Mahon, Co Cork, scheduled to open in August 2013.