Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives and Focus Groups
12:20 pm
Mr. David Fitzsimons:
Integration of services locally is fundamentally important in respect of the county enterprise board being joined at the hip with the local authority.
A final point to be made, and Deputy Mathews alluded to it, is that retail in the GNP is worth a significant amount of money to this country. It is largest private sector employer with 255,000 people employed, yet we do not have any transparent leadership in the Government for that industry. If we wish to talk about rent, we must go to the Department of Justice and Equality, in the case of rates it is the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, for labour issues it is the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation or the Department of Social Protection and for e-commerce it is the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
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