Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ireland's Trade Relationship with Canada: Discussion

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. Following on from that, when we talk about climate change we tend to pivot into green technology and digital technologies. How are domestic Canadian companies and SMEs dealing with the potential of digitisation to work remotely and do all that? Is the culture of work changing and how are Canadian companies moving towards green technologies? I understand what the ICBA representatives are saying about the work we have to do, which is going to be hard. Maybe it does not have to take a long time, but let us say it does and alongside that we have the shift towards the use of more green technology at the expense of the non-green technology as well. Then there is the potential of digitisation. How are SMEs in Canada managing to do that? How are they decarbonising and taking on new methods of working? How is that working for them?