Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Mr. Ivan Cooper:
Coming back to Senator Reilly's point about preventing children from playing, it is turning into a bigger issue of the nature of the society that is being created out of all of this with people being encouraged almost to behave in this particular way, setting up people into adversarial relationships where people are afraid to do certain things, rejecting the sharing of risks, rejecting shared responsibilities and, generally speaking, leading to this more adversarial society. There are cultural changes associated with some of this as well.