Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Last year, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation held extensive hearings with stakeholders on the cost of doing business in Ireland, in respect of which it published a report. The common denominators across all sectors were, the cost of rates, insurance and banking, and labour and skills shortages. Have any of the committee's recommendations been taken on board by the Department? Leaving aside the issues of insurance and rate costs, which I know do not come under the Minister's remit, have any of the committee's recommendations around labour costs and skill shortages been implemented?

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