Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Dr. Rachel Widdis:

That is 100% out of step with the practice and nobody understands that. The issue in Ireland is we can have a very small amount of people employed in a business with very large amounts of assets that are investing in all kinds of things, so there is a chain of command and of how the impacts trickle down. Therefore, it does not make any sense to exclude them or to say there is an exception or some particular interest point for Ireland. The other point I would make in passing is that all of the foreign direct investment companies in Ireland would be coming within this directive. That is another reason to get involved.

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