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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...we need to do, to create something in this regard by looking at other countries to discover what has been best practice there and then come up with a tool that could make the difference here for Ireland Inc. I am not expecting the witnesses to answer this query but this observation is one the Department's management board advising Ministers ought to consider. If it is agreed that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonisation of the Heat Sector: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: .... I have a few questions. The opening statement mentions a hydrogen pathway and says that the electrification pathway is superior. Are these two choices that we face? Is it the case that Ireland Inc. has to take a punt on one or the other or is it the case that they are essentially complementary and it is a question of timing? To move to my second question, if I was sitting in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...of sources of damage and the placing of levies on them so they are internalised to the business. I am seeking an understanding of the balance between the two. Obviously, to the finance director of Ireland Inc., it makes a big difference whether all that money falls on the Exchequer to fund or whether it is shared in that way through well-designed levies and so on. It seems to me that if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and COP26: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...; is there not a profound difference between the two things? If the EU continues to measure it the way it is, we are locked into a system that does not recognise the very significant value, from an Ireland Inc. and global Inc. point of view, of managing to reduce methane, particularly in agriculture, which is the biggest generator of it. If we continue to undervalue that then it is not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Bruton: The total number of first year enrolments on the undergraduate degree medicine courses in higher education institutions in Ireland since the 2010/2011 academic year is contained in the following table. I have also included data on first year enrolments to the graduate entry to medicine programmes, which are undergraduate medical courses specifically designed for graduate students. The...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Takeovers (25 Nov 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...IDA Ireland has ongoing close relationships with Medtronic and Covidien, both in Ireland and the US. That Agency will continue to engage with all parties to endeavour to influence positive developments for Ireland Inc., as the structure of the merger develops and future strategic decisions are made.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (17 Sep 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...1,500. IDA Ireland has ongoing close relationships with Medtronic and Covidien, both in Ireland and the US. That Agency will continue to engage with all parties to endeavour to influence a positive outcome for Ireland Inc., as the structure of the merger develops and strategic decisions are made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...years ago. We cannot change that. We cannot say we are going to compete for a different type of project when the mobile investment is in a certain area. We are out there to win what we can for Ireland Inc. and then try to maximise regional opportunity within that. We need to develop a credible strategy around this. The IDA is reviewing our strategy and we will be looking for a...

Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Mar 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...Fund decides it will sell its outer Mongolian share in diamond mining because it just does not work like that. The Minister would be perfectly entitled, in my view, to come to the shareholders of Ireland Inc. just as the banks will be holding extraordinary general meetings for their shareholdings and warning that the Minister will be diluting their shareholdings by putting in more money...

Banking System: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Richard Bruton: I wish to thank all of those who contributed to this important and timely debate. Since this motion was tabled there has been a growing realisation that we are fighting for our economic independence. I wish the Government well in confronting the economic and banking problems. However, wishing it well does not mean that I must suspend my critical faculties and pretend, as the Taoiseach and...

Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Bill 2009: Second Stage (20 Jan 2009)

Richard Bruton: ...the next step is and if we need to develop a model. Let us for once lead the markets instead of reacting to what is happening. Let us have a sense of the way in which we will go. Most vitally, Ireland Inc. is now in the dock. Our economic strategy is on trial and, by God, we need a proper strategy for management of the public finances and restoring competitiveness, but we have not seen...

Irish Economy: Motion (24 Sep 2008)

Richard Bruton: ...when it was brought to its senses by the collapse of tax revenue. A feeble response came in July. It was the sort of response one would expect from a child. Far from looking at the business of Ireland Inc., looking for the successful parts of public sending and deciding on the priorities to survive, it said let us cut 3% off the payroll everywhere so the most successful elements of our...

Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Feb 2008)

Richard Bruton: ...deal with only a few marginal changes. I do not object to many of them, which are worthy, and I will support them on Committee Stage but they are not part of the big agenda of how we can reform Ireland Inc. If we want the tax code to be up to scratch we must be willing to place it under scrutiny, which the Minister has repeatedly been unwilling to do. The one time he did so, when he...