Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion

Dr. Dermot Coates:

There are a number of strands. The Department has an EI liaison unit, which regularly monitors and interacts with EI management and tracks progress there. The Department conducts an annual business survey of economic impact, which surveys all EI firms to identify expansion in their international trade. That is granular, firm-by-firm-level data to enable us to identify where progress is being made. Also, in the White Paper, there is a detailed implementation plan mapping against all of the targets, where there will be annual reporting to track the target in the White Paper in terms of overall uplift.