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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Correspondence (30 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...’ service for all government supports available to business owners throughout the country. Ultimately, any responsibility for VAT lies with my colleague Mr. Michael McGrath T.D. Minister for Finance. In terms of reverting the VAT rate from 13.5% to 9%, it is important to recognise that VAT reductions, even temporary VAT reductions, do have a cost to the Exchequer. The Department...

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF. LEEF will continue to remain our social dialogue platform which is absolutely essential. The Bill is of great importance when we are beginning to see insolvency figures revert to pre-pandemic levels, as expected in an entrepreneurial society. It amends employment, redundancy and company-related laws in a meaningful way. It is important to...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...on content as opposed to the systems set up to optimise and target the content? Perhaps we need to look more at the root of the problem and the algorithms used, and the fact that they need to revert to what they were before 2018 so that reactions and engagements are no longer the driving metrics of social media companies. Investment needs to happen in artificial intelligence around local...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...safety in terms of the social media companies that are based in Ireland but providing services throughout the EU? My three main takeaways from Ms Haugen's exceptional testimony today are that the algorithm needs to revert to what it was pre 2018 so that reactions and engagements are no longer driving Facebook's metrics; investment needs to happen in AI around local languages and in...