Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

3:20 pm

Mr. John Murphy:

We must do it in a variety of forums. Mr. Murray mentioned the recognition of the importance of the European Union developing a more coherent and focused industry strategy. In other words, it is not enough to try to feed into trade negotiations or the environmental policy discussions or whatever. One actually must have a starting point, which is, what is our industrial policy, what do we seek to achieve and how can we achieve that, while taking into account our other policy objectives?