Promotion of enterprise, trade and employment

What this means

• The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is an Irish government department responsible for developing policy on enterprise, trade, innovation and quality employment.[source]
• It oversees the State agencies that handle industrial development and employment rights, meaning it is accountable for how those bodies operate and perform.[source]
• Its mandate is grounded in the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, which is the legal basis giving the department its authority to act in these areas.[source]
• The department currently has 2 implementing commitments linked to this mandate, meaning there are active obligations it is expected to deliver on.[source]
• This mandate matters for public accountability because it sets out who is responsible when policies on jobs, business growth and workers' rights succeed or fail.[source]

Direct impact (3)

• duty held by body
  Department of Enterprise, Trade and EmploymentBody
• implements mandate via commitment
  Support 300,000 additional jobs by 2030Commitment
• implements mandate via commitment
  Reduce the cost of doing business for SMEsCommitment

Indirect impact (5)

Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.

• duty held by body → owns statutory mandate2-hop via dept-enterprise
  Oversight of company law and corporate regulationMandate
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and at the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment2-hop via dept-enterprise
  Alan DillonOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment2-hop via dept-enterprise
  Niamh SmythOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment2-hop via dept-enterprise
  Peter BurkeOfficeholder
• duty held by body → holds role: Secretary General, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment2-hop via dept-enterprise
  Declan HughesOfficeholder