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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Brendan Smith: ...to grow trade with us, because, fortunately, since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the all-Ireland economy has developed, evolved and grown remarkably. A sister organisation of ISME, IBEC, gave us some figures on some of the companies that have an all-Ireland presence nowadays, are exporting north and south and have manufacturing bases both sides of the Border. I return to...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...and massive ambition for change could deliver. We in Labour put forward a programme for delivery 1 million homes over ten years, based on the Government's own projections using ESRI data, IBEC proposals and constructive proposals from NGOs such as Threshold and Focus Ireland. We put forward this ambitious proposal in the hope that would be engagement from Government. Rather than...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the percentage of disabled people in the workforce from 3% to 6%. We are the second worst in Europe for persons with a disability participating in the workforce. There is ongoing engagement with IBEC to reduce the number of hours a person must participate in the workforce. Currently, it has to be 19.5 hours. Employers are telling us that if we could reduce it to 14 or 15 hours, more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 May 2023)

Norma Foley: ...stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some of the primary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...by the conflict are the areas that invariably have been ignored the most in terms of any real economic or social benefit following the success that we have seen on this part of the island. IBEC would be very strong, and we have done some work with it on some of the dialogue and opportunities that exist for Northern Ireland to explore the opportunities that exist in terms of an economy of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (23 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...of the border. The other organisations represented on the Partnership are the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Dundalk Chamber of Commerce, Irish Business and Employer’s Confederation (IBEC), Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and the union, Unite. CBPES provides information to workers and jobseekers on employment related issues on both...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. John Maher: I wish to come in on the employment piece and perhaps Mr. Hession might come in on passporting through the system. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, and IBEC have developed a passport effectively for going between jobs. I understand that it is highly useful so a person is not restarting every time. The committee might be interested in the use and take-up of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...is all welcome, but this is only part of the solution to rural housing. Every year I, along with other midlands Deputies and Senators, like Senator Daly and others who were here earlier, meet IBEC. It tells us that housing is holding back rural regions. If we are ever to achieve rural or regional balance, housing is where we are falling down. We are failing farm families where they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

...that comes to mind is not as large. It is a retailer. The work it has done in this area is exceptional. It implemented the reasonable accommodation passport which we relaunched last year with IBEC and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU. With the passport the company ensured that it had a clear process for employees within the organisation and new recruits who come into the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Textbooks (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: ...with all relevant stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate, including primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers, schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. It also engaged with a number of schools directly, including some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (16 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Service Executive Henry J Lyons Architects Hibernia Real Estate Group Ltd Hilti Ltd HIQA I3PT IBEC IJM Timber Frame Institute of Fire Engineers IPUT Irish Fire Irish Green Building Council Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (10 May 2023)

David Stanton: Last week, we were told that the National Training Fund has a surplus of €1.5 billion. IBEC made six recommendations to us: introduce a national training voucher scheme; support dual investment in technology and talent; invest in industry-academia collaboration; incentivise more SMEs to take on apprentices; leverage the fund to implement lifelong learning; and future-proof...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (4 May 2023)

Neale Richmond: ...through their Newsletters, Website banners, bulk emails or any other means at their disposal to get the message out to businesses in their sector across the country. The bodies who received this communication included IBEC, ISME, SFA, RGDATA, SIMI, IFA, ICMSA, IMO, Vintners Association and Federation, Restaurants Association of Ireland and Chambers Ireland. The TBESS was extensively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion (3 May 2023)

IBEC and Science Foundation Ireland: Discussion

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Pauline Tully: ...Border communities to achieve greater connectivity on the island and enhancing the all-island economy and all aspects of North South co-operation. The Irish Business and Employers Confederation, IBEC, recently published a paper dealing with the development of the all-Ireland economy. This reflected the growth of the economy from the Good Friday Agreement to 2016 and Brexit and beyond....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...State and members of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, myself included, have had much engagement on all this. They have not been easy debates and discussions. We might listen to IBEC, which has affiliated forestry groups. It said the Republic has barely reached one quarter of what the figures are expected to be. It is blaming licensing delays on the bureaucracy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

...teachers into the future. The framework was brought about through collaboration with our teacher support services, with academia and various universities and higher education institutions, and with IBEC. It gave this link to business and industry. I thought this might be of interest to Deputy Farrell.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...recently warned that the acute shortage of housing was causing companies to take drastic action. It said big businesses are now considering buying up entire housing estates for their workers. IBEC has identified the problem as being not just a chronic lack of supply, but a crisis in the supply of affordable homes. This affordability crisis, according to IBEC, is now a critical barrier...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: .... These are targets which will require serious urgency and ambition from the Government to meet but they are necessary targets because what we are hearing, and not just from families who are forced into homelessness but also from employers’ groups, IBEC and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, is that the investment in housing by the State which we are calling for is...