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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Over the next-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: The next question was on Brexit about which there has been much talk. Does the Minister have a figure quantifying how much additional funding has been allocated for this year? As members are considering the mid-year expenditure review, I refer to funding specifically to help enterprise to begin to react appropriately to Brexit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: And for Enterprise Ireland and the LEOs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I meant that if there is an additional €500,000 this year for IDA Ireland, will EI and the LEOs get supplementary budgets for Brexit also?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: The Minister can announce it today, if she likes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: On the vulture funds-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: If I could draw the link, one of the Votes relates to the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority. Does the Chairman want me to wait? I can bring competition law back up on programme C, if the Chairman likes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask, as part of the Estimates, about the Competition and Consumer Protection Authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: We can go again, if the Chairman wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: The last point was on broadband. Does the Minister believe that a capital allocation should have been made to maintain public ownership of the upcoming broadband network?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I will start with a comment which is related to my question about what we will start spending less on. It concerns the materials we got from the Minister's Department. Obviously a lot of good things are happening and this is not to talk down any of the good news but this reads like propaganda. It is not balanced committee-level material. There is nothing in this programme about what is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: To state that innovation is important is a bit like stating that education is important when somebody asks what we need to do better in education. It is not responding to the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for her response. With the greatest of respect, however, her response exactly mirrors the point I am making, which is that our job here is to hold the Executive to account for the expenditure of public moneys. Like the Minister, I acknowledge the considerable good news and efforts across the board. However, it is impossible that it is all good news. Part of our job is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: If I could just keep going, there is more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: -----not on this point, Chairman; I want to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: No, I was making an initial point, which we have just debated. The Minister cannot reject the point; the point is a fact and is not a matter of opinion. The reports furnished to the committee have no critical analysis of what is not working. That is not my opinion; that is a fact. I am simply pointing out to the Minister that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (22 Sep 2016)
Stephen Donnelly: That is what I am trying to-----