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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: I hope they make a better job of farming than of football.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: There is nothing small about you, Deputy, either in stature or as a farmer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: I ask the Senator to concentrate on seeking answers to questions and not on the reasons she is against this initiative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: I thank Mr. Hayes for that. Before we move on to supplementary questions, I have a few observations to make. First, I want to congratulate Mr. Hayes and everyone else at Enterprise Ireland on their work in winning the Kerry investment. I know that a lot of work went into that, specifically from his own section in Enterprise Ireland. The team had to focus on that and it was not an easy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: I congratulate Mr. Hayes on that because he does not always get the credit to which he is entitled. Mr. Hayes must also be complimented on the net gain in jobs. I recall having the same discussion during the boom times with a different set of people from Enterprise Ireland. Even at that time, it was seen as a success to have a net gain because there were many losses in certain sectors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: Are there any other comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: Does Mr. Richard Murphy wish to respond to a question from Deputy Áine Collins?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: Is it in certain sectors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: Is it that certain sectors need to have export potential?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: That goes back to the point on rules that prevented job creation in the past. We would hope the new units would be able to help many more companies than previously. I understand that, for reasons of space, it is only certain sectors-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: -----that would have to have export potential, but others would get employment grants from Enterprise Ireland. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: What about the service industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: And it is recognised that it could take a couple of years to get to the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: It is how one interprets the criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: There have to be new customers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: I thank the representatives for appearing before the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: If it is okay, we may engage with the representatives in the new year when they present their proposals to the Minister. I now welcome Ms Avine McNally, assistant director of the Small Firms Association and Mr. Mark Fielding, chief executive of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, ISME. I apologise for the delay in coming to this part of the meeting. Ms McNally, please make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: Thank you for attending, Mr. Fielding. I know October is a bad month for you to come to the committee. The Small Firms Association addressed the joint committee a few weeks to ago to discuss its pre-budget submission and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment. You might like to use this opportunity to add some comments on those issues to your presentation. We might have a chance to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: I thank Ms Avine McNally and Mr. Mark Fielding for their contributions and I appreciate the frankness and directness of their comments. On that last point, the committee can bring up the issue of developing a national policy on entrepreneurship. If Senator Feargal Quinn were present, he would be very excited about that. We have touched on that issue and talked about it in many ways without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Micro-Enterprise and Small Business Unit: Discussion with EI, ISME and SFA (23 Oct 2012)

Damien English: That is the reason we are having these presentations. We will act on them.