Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage

3:40 pm

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I will come back to this on Report Stage, as this is a mistake. We are moving away from having locally elected representatives involved in this enterprise function, and it will be purely a matter for unelected officials. That is wrong. The role and oversight of local business people in the running of county enterprise boards has been important so there should be some way of involving business people in some sort of advisory function in a LEO. We will get back to this on Report Stage in a way that is amenable to the Bills Office.