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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Mr. Talbot has a long list of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Deputy Tóibín and I can tell Deputy Lyons that we have the finest lamps in Navan and if he is really stuck we can source them for him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: I will conclude this session by thanking Mr. Ian Talbot, Mr. Seán Murphy and Mr. Mark O'Mahoney for their presentation and their interaction on the questions. As they are aware, the joint committee is undertaking a process that also will feed into the Action Plan for Jobs and I welcome the departmental officials who are present. We intend that our report, for which Deputy Lyons is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: I welcome to the meeting the representatives from RGDATA, namely, Ms Tara Buckley, director general, Mr. Colin Fee, director, Mr. Eamonn Gavin, director, and Mr. Hugh Doyle, member and retailer of Donnybrook Fair, to discuss measures to support business growth and job creation and retention in town and village centres. I believe the witnesses' own report, published last year, put members in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: I just want to remind the delegation that if they are going to discuss banks, they should not mention any names.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: I thank Mr. Gavin for his time. He has raised a couple of issues. One of them was the black market which we, as a committee, put a lot of work into last year. We have made a lot of recommendations to Government, some of which have been acted upon. However, we intend to pursue the matter. He is right that a lot of taxpayers' money is wasted and a lot of jobs could be created if that money...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Does Deputy Anthony Lawlor wish to contribute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: It is much the same in our job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Much of the money spent on enforcing the regulations is spent checking out retailers who are compliant as opposed to targeting the money at those who are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: It is good to get the stories. Last year, we had a very Dublin-orientated presentation and it is important to hear what is happening around the country. I thank the witnesses for sharing their views. Their presence is appreciated. We will conclude this part of the session and suspend while the next group comes in. This is part of an ongoing process. We will draw up a report over the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: We will have a discussion with Ms Claire Cumiskey from the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, Nasc, to discuss the Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill which comes before the committee on Thursday. Her presence is timely. She previously contacted Deputy Tóibín and he proposed that Ms Cumiskey should be invited to the committee. I thank her for attending at short notice. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: I thank Ms Cumiskey for her presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)
Damien English: I thank Ms Cumiskey for her presentation and answering members’ questions. Committee Stage of the Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014 will be taken on Thursday but once issues are raised on that Stage, they can be brought forward on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: The meeting has been convened for the purpose of consideration by the select committee of the Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014 which was referred to it by order of the Dáil on 27 May. Apologies have been received from Deputy Anthony Lawlor. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Sean Sherlock, and his officials and thank...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: That is the short version.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Amendments Nos. 5 to 15, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Amendments Nos. 5 to 15, inclusive, should have been discussed together, but I will allow Deputy Tóibín to speak on the amendments in his name.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Amendment No. 15 is also being discussed, if the Deputy wishes to address it. To clarify, we are discussing amendments Nos. 5 to 15, inclusive. It will be our last discussion on them.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)
Damien English: Do others wish to comment? If not, I call the Minister of State.