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- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: ...on the NASDAQ stock exchange as companies in Ireland are not Irish companies, 40 American companies account for two thirds of the value of Irish exports and one in five private sector jobs is now IDA Ireland supported through foreign direct investment. Hewlett Packard is also one of the top two technology companies being investigated in the US Senate for tax avoidance on a massive...
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (8 Feb 2017)
Ruth Coppinger: ...have increased dramatically, and some of them are playing leading roles in State appointments. Lionel Alexander, vice president and managing director of Hewlett Packard, served on the board of the IDA from 2009 to date. He has only just been listed as formerly of that board. Last September, the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, appointed him to the board of the Institute...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: ...will take to spend the bag of silver the Government will get for any sale of Aer Lingus. Not only would this country lose a profitable company, something the Government spends a fortune sending the IDA out to find, there are massive implications for north Dublin, Cork, Shannon and the Limerick regions which are struggling in the recession. We are told relentlessly by the media that...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Law Society of Ireland (10 May 2016)
Ruth Coppinger: ...cannot solve the housing crisis unless we are able to get privately owned land in Dublin west and in Dublin 15. The local authority has a lot of industrially zoned land, on which it has a deal with IDA Ireland. Some of it would not be suitable for housing because it would be in the middle of an industrial estate; other portions of it may be. One of the other reasons we selected this...
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)
Ruth Coppinger: ...net cash reserves of €445 million. If the Minister could ditch his ideological aversion to public ownership, the taxpayer spends billions of euro attracting this type of company to Ireland and supporting them through IDA and Enterprise Ireland. This is an indigenous company with a respected brand which contributes to the Exchequer and turns a profit but apparently it must be sold....