Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Murray mentioned competitiveness. During the meetings the joint committee held in January in Europe, a theme that came across many of the meetings concerned the nature of cross-cutting EU policy initiatives, such as that in respect of climate change, which do not directly fall under the ambit of this committee on enterprise but yet will have a major impact on jobs and competitiveness. What is the Department's view in this regard? I presume this is a matter of which the Department is well aware and with which it must deal. Perhaps this issue of competitiveness falls to Mr. Monks.