Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Forum: Discussion
Dr. Céline McHugh:
I will take that question. I am only echoing what the others have said in response to the other points made. One of the things we are trying to do is gather case studies. Our website has an enormous amount of detail of what individual companies are doing. To give an example, we have a case study from A&L Goodbody which runs a writer in residence programme. It operates with a local school in the East Wall area, working in collaboration with Suas. The Central Bank of Ireland also has some initiatives, including an early learning project. It involves encouraging its own staff to take part in the programme. Returning to the win-win aspect, this is about staff development and having a positive impact in the local area. That always tends to be part of the endeavours. These initiatives are most effective for businesses when the win-win element is present in workplaces. They then become places where the staff involved can acquire more skills, in addition to benefiting the local community.