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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: I endorse the Chairman's comments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: I was trying to establish one point. Sometimes in public bodies - it also happens in the private sector - people can become rather proprietorial about their area. As a consequence, politics goes on and this can be an obstacle to achieving the goals of the mission statement or the objective that the country wishes to achieve. Will the association comment on this? The association referred...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: I have five questions and I will ask them quickly, if the Chairman will allow me. First, with regard to the BRIC countries, we have mentioned Russia and China but not Brazil and India, and I will also throw in Indonesia and other developing countries. Is there anything the witnesses would add in regard to areas where we are not represented? My second and third questions are related. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: That is not correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: From a trade point of view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: I pay tribute to the delegations before us, who have been most forthright and informative in terms of the information we are getting. I have two questions for IBEC. IBEC has regional offices. There is evidence that many small companies do not have the resources to develop export markets. Is IBEC, through its regional offices or any other mechanism, proactive in trying to identify such...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: Are debate and discussions taking place within the IBEC family? This issue affects many of its members. I am aware that the banks are significant members of Dr. Ivory's organisation, as well as significant contributors. However, many of its members are suffering as a consequence of the lack of credit from the banks. In spite of the fact that the banks are big contributors, an organisation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Promotion: Discussion (Resumed) with IBEC and IEA (14 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: By and large, the embassies do a good job. However, it is not a uniformly good job and there are areas in which improvements could be made.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: Not for Ministers' special advisers.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: There you are.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: The Minister is taking 0.6% from pension funds.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: That is a fairy tale.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Banking Sector Remuneration (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: It is a fairy tale.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: I welcome my constituency colleague. In the current climate it is easy to fall into the trap of being penny wise and pound foolish. Yesterday at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade we had an example where the Irish Exporters Association and IBEC referred to the fact that some of our offices abroad had reduced the number of individuals promoting trade,...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: I am as wise now as when I started. I accept that the Minister of State who is not attached to the Department of Health has read a prepared script given to him by the Department, but the questions I asked were very specific. Will the post be filled immediately and, if not, when will it be filled? I did not receive any indication of this but heard why it had not been filled because of the...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: Can the Minister of State confirm that to me in writing?
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: On a point of order, I was the strongest voice in the House on the issue of public service salaries and pensions during the period when we were in government. The Cathaoirleach knows that because he was here.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: The Minister of State is in government now and he has not addressed it.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: The Government has not addressed it. The Minister of State should examine the matter again.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Staff (15 Nov 2012)
Jim Walsh: Our colleague, the Minister, Deputy Howlin, was not able to answer a single question when he was here last week.