Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Forthcoming Competitiveness Council: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
The big call from Commissioner Tajani is around what he calls the renaissance of manufacturing and the belief that manufacturing has declined too low. Therefore, a target is set from 15% of employment to 20%. We could turn that into a concrete jobs target. Much of what is in the document is not dramatically new but we see the same in our own environment. Much of what we should be doing to drive employment does not involve grandiose magic silver bullets. It is around improving the business environment, looking at access to finance and sectoral opportunities and seeking to develop these by building clusters and research capability around them. This is a realistic assessment of what it takes. It takes action in Europe across the board. We see it all there.
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