Results 661-680 of 1,033 for speaker:Joe Neville
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Is the energy sector a big risk to the economy?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Both price and the grid.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: They are linked. We have not invested in our infrastructure so, apparently, our prices are higher because of that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Yes, but at the same time, if we put them through a system that has not been invested in, it is more expensive.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Regarding the reference to encouraging entrepreneurship, we have some great schemes. Enterprise Ireland does great work with certain entrepreneurs. Are there any individual things witnesses would say we could do better? To link that to the increase in savings in Ireland, there are two points. People were saving too much, which the witnesses called out, but also there is not enough...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Does Dr. Kelly think we are set up to do that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: What are the witnesses' views on how the economy has been run over the last five or six years?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Would Dr. Kelly say the economy is overheating?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Earlier Dr. Kelly referenced the way we export to the UK, primarily as SMEs. I know exactly what he was talking about because I have been involved in those SMEs. A company will do Ireland and want to grow so it will jump to the UK and Europe. However, America is so far away that many companies never get there. What is Dr. Kelly's view on the impact of a possible economic downturn in the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: I am a member of the Joint Committee on Infrastructure and National Development. What is the key infrastructure? I ask because the word "infrastructure" is almost used as an excuse not to build anything any more. What does the Central Bank see as the main item that needs to be unblocked? It is almost about unplugging the system.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: I agree with that because houses cannot be built without them. I fully agree with this.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Does the Central Bank see them as potential economic blockers to future investment in the country? Is this the way it sees it already? Are we already dealing with a scenario where people are walking away because, whatever about the cost, they cannot rely on a dedicated-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Yes, that is the word.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: We do have some areas, such as where I live in north Kildare, where we have seen an increase in housing but almost everybody is stuck because we do not have the community infrastructure behind it. This is a separate issue. If we were speaking tomorrow, how would Dr. Kelly sum up a message to give to the Ministers for Finance and public expenditure?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: My contribution will be short enough. Mr. Brady is basically saying things are not as bad as we thought they would have been a few months ago.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Things could be worse. For now, they are not as bad as was feared, but they could get worse. Regarding IBEC's key business priorities, I have the good fortune to have the Minister, Deputy Chambers, due to appear before two committees I sit on tomorrow. We will have him before the Joint Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery tomorrow, as Deputy Fleming can confirm.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: We will also have him appearing here before this joint committee. He comes in on an ongoing basis too. What would be the main items in IBEC's key business priorities? I ask this because everything comes back to infrastructure, infrastructure and infrastructure. The difficulty that even I have is disassembling this into individual points, and perhaps what we need to be getting to are these...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Yes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Mr. Brady spoke about multi-annual funding as a key point. What about the skills we have and those we require through apprenticeships or whatever else? What sort of feedback is IBEC getting? We have begun to move the needle back a little, but we probably have not got where we need to be on it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)
Joe Neville: Mr. Brady referenced support and innovation and R and D. I mentioned the R and D tax credit. Would that be typically for larger multinationals? How do we make that more pertinent to our own SME economy?