Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion

Mr. Tim Griffiths:

These are people who have made a huge difference at community and national level. There is a danger of pigeonholing these things as community-based projects, but many of these projects present a national opportunity and an opportunity to change things for all of us to live our best lives in many ways.

There has been much progress but, as somebody mentioned, there are a lot of social issues and many of them are new. The war in Ukraine has created, with all the Ukrainians living in Ireland today, a certain set of issues.

There are new solutions we need to come up with. We are working with social entrepreneurs who are working in that space but they need greater support to bring things to the fore.