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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (2 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister said he expects we will all see a slowdown in the number of data centres being established. Could he put some figures on that? The figure of 11% is a lot. I do not hear anyone saying it is any more than 11% but I hear people saying it is currently at 11%. That is where we are sort of starting from today. It is only going in one direction. It is only going up so 11% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Places (1 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a shortage of secondary school places across north County Dublin; and if she has plans to address this issue. [4400/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the strategy of her Department to increase the number of students undertaking science, technology, engineering and mathematics for the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 171. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the HPV vaccine available free of cost to all persons who would medically benefit from it; his further plans to cater for third-level students who missed receiving the vaccine in school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3778/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Shanahan. There is merit in looking at that aspect. It should be examined seriously and in the way that France appears to be doing it. I must confess that I am basing this on news reports. There is significant merit in examining how that can be done and how we can learn from that approach. I accept fully that it is being done. Turning to Intel's planned expansion and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not dispute that our competitors have issues too, but there is nobody competing with us in terms of rising house prices and, indeed, other prices. It is not for nothing that this issue is raised with me very regularly. I appreciate the response of Mr. Shanahan and I thank him for it. I refer to remarks made previously by Mr. Shanahan. He stated: It is great to see Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for answering our questions so well thus far. I want to ask about the role IDA Ireland played in the purchase of ventilators by a company known as Roqu Media, a festival management company. I am sure the witnesses are familiar with it. I am not exactly certain what its expertise in ventilators and ventilation is, but perhaps the witnesses can enlighten us on that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry, Mr. Shanahan, but while I had 14 minutes in the first round, I only have seven now. Could Mr. Shanahan specifically address my question on IDA Ireland's role?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: In the case of Roqu Media, how did that happen? Did the IDA reach out to it or did it reach out to IDA Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not with IDA Ireland, so the agency had no contact, role or involvement at any point. I thank Mr. Shanahan. My next question is on a not-dissimilar theme. We all read the stories, particularly in the Business Postbut also elsewhere, regarding the Minister of State, Deputy Troy's meeting, and granting of confidentiality to big tech companies in advance of the meeting, to discuss the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not unreasonable that a client would want to know. It would be unreasonable if the client wanted to control it, though. I am sure Mr. Shanahan would agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I accept that the IDA does not do it as a matter of course. Though it might not be the IDA's practice all the time, it does it sometimes, does it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: What Mr. Shanahan said was "as a matter of course". I am sorry, but I want to be specific. He said that, as a matter of course, the IDA did not do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Does that mean that it usually does not do that but does sometimes or that it never does it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: In an instance where, as Mr. Shanahan mentioned, the IDA does not ask for confidentiality, it might ask the Government about the meeting's status, whether it will be formal, will formal minutes be taken and where they will go. In this case, assurances were given that the meeting would be confidential and minutes would not be taken. To be straight with Mr. Shanahan, that worries me. He says...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Regarding the meeting on the European Commission's legislation specifically, confidentiality was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sorry. I have just one brief question. My understanding is that confidentiality was granted in this instance, but Mr. Shanahan is saying that this was not arranged by the IDA. I want to be clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: Sought by whom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our witnesses for being here. I thank Mr. Shanahan for his presentation, and for not going through the slide deck, because we can go through it ourselves. I am glad to see someone else has my aversion to PowerPoint as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: As regards Amazon specifically, what is the ratio of the good high-value and high-quality jobs to which Mr. Shanahan refers compared with jobs that are less high quality? Does IDA Ireland encompass issues such as bogus self-employment within its strategy? The company might be paying a good wage to the people who issue the contracts to the poor unfortunates who are doing the delivery. The...