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Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...The third level sector will be hugely important, but this is not an agency for the third level sector. Rather, it is an agency for research in terms of collaboration for the entirety of Ireland. I am not using the term "Ireland Inc.". That means that the Bill cannot be exclusionary. I believe that the Bill cannot be too definitive with regard to the type of people we might or might not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: ..., the OPW's role has actually shrunk. Now I would say to my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, that it is time to widen that remit in respect of the other State-owned Ireland Inc. buildings for which we are not responsible but for which we should be.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...be looking for a remote working environment in Stillorgan. We know the local authority does not have full capacity in that area. We need to start seeing the Civil Service and public sector as "Ireland Inc." rather than two different entities. We need to start looking at how we can collaborate all of our working environments as one "Ireland Inc." working environment. We need to make...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...I do not agree with the Senator's view that convenience is not an issue for citizens. Convenience is an issue and people legitimately ask why they have to repeatedly submit the same information to Ireland Inc., as it were, to access public services. People have a right to ask that question. As the person who signed it, I accept that the Tallinn Declaration is a declaration. The Senator...

Other Questions: Sports Events (7 Dec 2016)

Patrick O'Donovan: Event Ireland has its ear to the ground as regards potential future events that are of interest to Ireland Inc. I am satisfied with its interactions and with my dealings in the Department with the national governing bodies of sport, be they the paralympic movement hoping to host events or any of the other major and smaller bodies. They are all prepared to put their heads above the parapet....

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...pay, and all this has had an impact on their families as well. The same has happened in the private sector. We have made these changes by maintaining industrial peace. That is critical to how Ireland Inc. is portrayed abroad. How would this country be perceived internationally if we had, on top of everything else, the type of scenes that have taken place in some of the Mediterranean...