Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

The Deputy will be aware that the Taoiseach launched the strategy for the international financial services industry 2011-16. One of the initiatives is the creation of the Green IFSC whereby we pin down areas in which there are new opportunities ranging from carbon management, IP commercialisation, private equity investment to green tech fund management. The Government is engaging in this space. It is impossible, realistically, to set a finite target for job creation. The main point is that we are setting down the policy framework by which we can drive these agendas and ensure strong political co-ordination and coherence.

On Deputy Boyd Barrett's proposal, I respectfully ask him to make contact with the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, and that he seek to meet him to ask him to consider it.

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