Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. John Callinan:

That is a fair comment. Independent of Brexit, the Government over the last number of years has been conscious that the economic recovery has been stronger in Dublin and other cities. It has been very conscious of that in its approach to enterprise support, job creation, job support and so forth. However, you are right - Brexit compounds that. That is uppermost in the mind of the Government in terms of its approach and the type of measures required, such as those I spoke about earlier in terms of the overall economic response. The Cabinet is seized with the fact that to the extent there are negative impacts they will hit harder in certain areas, regions and sectors. That will be reflected in the overall Government response. I will ask Pauline Mullingan to comment further from the jobs and enterprise perspective in terms of how that is being reflected in the Department's strategy.

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