Results 2,021-2,040 of 4,073 for speaker:Mary Mitchell O'Connor
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have had a wide and extensive series of meetings since the result of the UK referendum in June. I am a member of the Cabinet Sub-committee on Brexit, which has already met on a number of occasions. As regards my Department and its agencies, I have established a co-ordination group consisting of the chief executive officers of both IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, and relevant...
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Can the Deputy repeat that?
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I ask that one of the questions be repeated as I did not hear the Deputy.
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: It was the second one.
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Details of my availability and the meetings I have had have been put up on the web, so the Deputy can check the meetings that I have had. As I said, in our Department we have a business Brexit response, we have a co-ordination group and a departmental Brexit group. I do not have the details, the specific numbers, in respect of the Deputy's questions but I would be more than happy to write...
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the Deputy. As I said, I will write to the Deputy to make sure he gets the exact number-----
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: ----of meetings. With regard to Cabinet Sub-committee meetings on Brexit, I do not have the figure before me but I sit on a number of Cabinet committees, including the Sub-committee on the Economy, Trade and Jobs, the Sub-committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Action and the Sub-committee on European Affairs.
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I will give the Deputy-----
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I will-----
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have said I will write and give the Deputy the exact number and I will copy a letter-----
- Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I will copy an answer to the Ceann Comhairle and any other Members who would like the answers to the question. I do not have it here but the co-ordination group within our Department, which includes IDA and Enterprise Ireland, meets regularly on a fortnightly basis.
- Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Funding of InterTrade Ireland is provided on a 2:1 basis by my Department and its counterpart in Northern Ireland, the Department for the Economy. Discussions between both Departments to determine a budget for the body for 2017 have not yet been concluded. I am very much aware of the difficulties that Brexit may pose for the companies that InterTrade Ireland assists, particularly SMEs....
- Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Protecting cross-Border trade from the potential impacts of Brexit is important. It is really hard to predict at this stage. I am hopeful I will have more money and that is what we are pushing for in the budget. It is clear that the cross-Border market on the island is particularly important for SMEs. It has a really important role to play in this area. We recognise it on this side of...
- Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: This question deals with technical economic modelling. The sustainability impact assessment, SIA, assesses the likely benefits of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, and provides a comprehensive prediction on the impacts of the agreement. The study uses the so-called computable general equilibrium, CGE, model to simulate the impact of the CETA. These are standard tools...
- Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The Tufts study uses a hypothetical model which is not suitable in analysing complex trade agreements. Quite honestly, I prefer to look at real examples and the evidence we already have available. One such example is the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement. It has led to an increase in Irish exports of 25%, which is proof that free trade agreements work in increasing exports, jobs and growth....
- Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Ireland is a small, open economy. I want the benefits of the agreement to come into being, when we can have a fully informed debate based on facts and evidence. I mentioned the example of the EU agreement with South Korea. On the timing, no decision has been made on when we will have a debate here. There are a number of factors. Obviously, the Singapore case is taking place and we will...
- Other Questions: IDA Portfolio (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am satisfied that IDA Ireland must maintain an adequate supply of marketable serviced land and buildings. The ready availability of property in advance of demand is critical to IDA Ireland’s ability to compete for mobile foreign direct investment. That is particularly the case, given the increasingly competitive global foreign direct investment market and in the context of the...
- Other Questions: IDA Portfolio (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I made the point that when there are available properties and sites, it gives choice to foreign direct investment companies that would be interested in locating in Ireland. At the end of last year, the total number of available sites was 85. The most recent information IDA Ireland provided to me last April was that there were 21 vacant IDA Ireland-owned properties. I can forward the...
- Other Questions: IDA Portfolio (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To clarify, there are 21 IDA Ireland properties and 85 sites. When we have choice, especially in conjunction with the regional Action Plan for Jobs, it gives IDA Ireland an opportunity to bring FDI to the areas. Clare has had 13 site visits and the mid-west and Limerick had 39, as I mentioned earlier, to the end of the third quarter. I will talk to IDA Ireland. Although I would love to...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Support Services (3 Nov 2016)
Mary Mitchell O'Connor: The JobPath scheme falls under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar TD. The conditions of the various Government supports under JobPath are therefore a matter for the Department of Social Protection. Conditions attached to the grants made by my Department’s agencies do not preclude participation in JobPath; agency client companies are...