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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: He is not here today.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: Amendment No. 6 has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: The Deputy may raise that issue when we discuss the section.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: The amendment proposed that each local enterprise office be subject to oversight by a board comprised of representatives of the relevant local authority and local businesses. Under Standing Order 156, this could - that being the key word - have the effect of imposing a charge on the Exchequer. That is the reason given by the Bills Office. There is also a second reason. One of the main...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: Is the amendment being pressed?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: If the Deputy wants the number I can supply it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: I thank the Minister and his officials for all their help. I thank also the members for having two meetings on the one day.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (18 Feb 2014)

Damien English: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil. The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (19 Feb 2014)

Damien English: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to allowing those who have personal retirement bonds on a once-off basis to draw down a certain percentage of the accumulated value of their PRB contributions, similar to the window of opportunity afforded to holders of certain additional voluntary contribution pension schemes who, from the date of the passing of the Finance...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Black Economy Issues (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider setting up an informal working group, to include, among others, representatives from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Members of the Oireachtas and representatives from his Department, to examine proposals to reduce the loss of revenue to the State from the impact of the illicit sale of goods; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Programmes (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: 341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the shared services programme as part of the Government’s public service reform plan; implementation timeframe of the financial management shared services project for the Civil Service, defence and justice sectors; the breakdown of the costs and savings associated with this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Directives (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: 363. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any of the provisions contained within Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings will impact on the non-filing structure being used by Irish companies to avoid filing their accounts with the Companies Registration Office; if any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the recently published report of the entrepreneurship forum entitled Entrepreneurship in Ireland: Strengthening the Startup Community. I welcome Mr. Sean O'Sullivan, chairman of the entrepreneurship forum; Ms Wendy Gray, from the small and medium sized enterprise policy unit in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; Mr. Daniel Ramamoorthy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: I thank Mr. Sean O'Sullivan for his presentation. As Deputy Seán Kyne has to leave at 2 p.m., does he wish to ask a brief question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: There is a culture of not taking a risk. Parents encourage their children to get a secure job as an accountant or solicitor or whatever. Is there a cultural sense in Ireland in general that for people to become an entrepreneur and to use their imagination, they should do so at the side of having a real job? Is the perception that people should get a safe secure job and then, at night time,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: We will blame the banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: I have a few questions. I know this is not Government policy but it is a recommendation and part of our job is to provide a forum to air it and to adopt the parts of it we believe in and push them through as a committee. Mr. Daniel Ramamoorthy mentioned co-working spaces and that practice is in operation in the voluntary sector where centres have been set up in a few places. People share...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: The point is that on social enterprise, people who come before this committee say they should have access to many of the supports available to other enterprises. A social entrepreneur does not feel welcome in an enterprise board. They do not feel they are entitled to supports yet they will create jobs. They have an innovative idea. Does Mr. O'Sullivan have a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Damien English: That is what I thought.