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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: That is entirely separate from and on top of any support such a company would get from TBESS, for example, under which data centres can get €30,000 a month.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Various sectors are excluded from stream 2. There is a reference somewhere here, which I cannot find now, to adult entertainment and the gambling sector, both of which are excluded. Enterprise Ireland has not chosen to exclude data centres, while speaking about the need for decarbonisation and while the Taoiseach yesterday uttered great words: "Our citizens will become increasingly cynical,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: That is purely a policy choice, however, on the part of Enterprise Ireland. Nothing is legally preventing the agency from saying it will not include data centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: If Enterprise Ireland were serious about the commitment to decarbonisation, it would have excluded data centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: The reason data centres are not excluded relates to EU rules. Is that what our guests are saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: But they exist and they can apply to the scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Clancy is suggesting these cloud data centres serve only local people. I must have misunderstood the nature of the cloud.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: There is one example in Blanchardstown, or at least its office for getting in touch is located in Blanchardstown. It advertises internationally and offers a data centre. The idea these data centres serve just local people is contradictory to the nature of cloud technology.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Does it not demonstrate a gross policy incoherence that, on the one hand, there are the kinds of speeches we heard yesterday from the Taoiseach and Enterprise Ireland's statement about the commitment to decarbonisation while, on the other hand, the public, through Enterprise Ireland, or at least through TBESS, separate from Enterprise Ireland in a big way and quite possibly through the agency...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Greater energy use will make it more difficult to decarbonise. Does Mr. Clancy accept that? It is a basic mathematical fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Can I ask how many jobs are in data centres either in Ireland or in the Enterprise Ireland-supported companies in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Clancy was quoted in The Sunday Timesas saying "Somewhere close to 10 per cent of exports of Enterprise Ireland-supported companies are in the data centre sector". He is not saying that they are actually in data centres.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: They are tech companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: So can Mr. Clancy explain how he gets to the 10% figure? He is not saying that that is every construction export.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Mr. Clancy went on to refer to well-paid jobs. What evidence does he have for that assertion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Does Mr. Leahy have the figures for the data centres sector, which is the section to which the quotation refers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: Can the witnesses say how many jobs are in the data centre sector, as referenced? Is it the case that some 10% of Enterprise Ireland-supported company jobs are in the data centre sector in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: How did he reach that 10% figure of exports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: How much of the work of those companies is in the data centre sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland (9 Nov 2022)
Paul Murphy: I am interested to know this. The figures seem to be high, with the suggestion that 10% of exports are in the data centre sector. I acknowledge Mr. Clancy is saying that does not relate to Irish-owned data centres.