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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: Mr. Maye said he wanted to see fairness in trade between SMEs and multinational companies. Is he advocating for fair play for SMEs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: Does the International Small Business Alliance deal with them on behalf of small and medium enterprises? I imagined that Mr. Maye would say he represented 50 or 60 businesses throughout the country, like RGDATA or other associations do. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: It is not clear in the document. Mr. Maye makes several statements on where things have gone wrong, but in order to allow members to direct questions to him, I wanted to get some background information. We will move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: I beg the Senator's pardon. I thought his questions were for the insurance groups only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: Is it possible for those figures to be circulated to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: That would be great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: Any further questions Senator Davitt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: Would Deputy Quinlivan mind repeating that bunch of questions because there was quite a lot there and I know the witnesses were struggling to write them down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: There is quite a lot there Mr. Thompson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: I saw that. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: We will certainly consider Deputy Neville's proposal. We have focused primarily on motor insurance which, while welcome-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: I ask the Deputy to repeat his questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Neville. I have a question for Mr. Maye. During his presentation he spoke about the German industry and the pillar banks. While we were doing our many meetings, we had the pillar banks in and the following week we had Sparkassen, Irish Rural Link and the credit unions in to look specifically at what they could bring to the market. Mr. Maye is very supportive of the German...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: May I interject at this point, as Mr. Maye is aware we did have a post office bank at one stage but the post office bank failed? I know it was not quite a bank.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: It was a counter in the post office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: We already have AIB supplying services within the post office network.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: Does Mr. Maye think it would also be supportive of retaining the post office network into the future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: I must say that during the presentations that day by Sparkassen, Rural Link and the credit unions, there was great buy-in from all the members present. Senator Reilly specifically asked for Sparkassen to be brought in together with Rural Link and the credit unions. I know it will feature heavily in our document. Does Mr. Maye wish to add because I know there were not a great many specific...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: That is why I questioned him earlier, I was afraid that specific questions would not be put.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)
Mary Butler: As there is nobody offering, I will bring the meeting to a close. This is the final of our eight meetings on the cost of doing business. We have a great deal of work to do to pull our document together, which we hope to launch in July 2018. We will make many recommendations on the cost of doing business and I have no doubt that insurance will feature heavily in it. I thank the witness for...