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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Amendments Nos. 5 to 15, inclusive, should have been discussed together, but I will allow Deputy Tóibín to speak on the amendments in his name.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I thank Ms Cumiskey for her presentation and answering members’ questions. Committee Stage of the Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014 will be taken on Thursday but once issues are raised on that Stage, they can be brought forward on Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I thank Ms Cumiskey for her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Much of the money spent on enforcing the regulations is spent checking out retailers who are compliant as opposed to targeting the money at those who are not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: It is good to get the stories. Last year, we had a very Dublin-orientated presentation and it is important to hear what is happening around the country. I thank the witnesses for sharing their views. Their presence is appreciated. We will conclude this part of the session and suspend while the next group comes in. This is part of an ongoing process. We will draw up a report over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: We will have a discussion with Ms Claire Cumiskey from the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, Nasc, to discuss the Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill which comes before the committee on Thursday. Her presence is timely. She previously contacted Deputy Tóibín and he proposed that Ms Cumiskey should be invited to the committee. I thank her for attending at short notice. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Does Deputy Anthony Lawlor wish to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: It is much the same in our job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I thank Mr. Gavin for his time. He has raised a couple of issues. One of them was the black market which we, as a committee, put a lot of work into last year. We have made a lot of recommendations to Government, some of which have been acted upon. However, we intend to pursue the matter. He is right that a lot of taxpayers' money is wasted and a lot of jobs could be created if that money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I just want to remind the delegation that if they are going to discuss banks, they should not mention any names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I will conclude this session by thanking Mr. Ian Talbot, Mr. Seán Murphy and Mr. Mark O'Mahoney for their presentation and their interaction on the questions. As they are aware, the joint committee is undertaking a process that also will feed into the Action Plan for Jobs and I welcome the departmental officials who are present. We intend that our report, for which Deputy Lyons is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I welcome to the meeting the representatives from RGDATA, namely, Ms Tara Buckley, director general, Mr. Colin Fee, director, Mr. Eamonn Gavin, director, and Mr. Hugh Doyle, member and retailer of Donnybrook Fair, to discuss measures to support business growth and job creation and retention in town and village centres. I believe the witnesses' own report, published last year, put members in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Deputy Tóibín and I can tell Deputy Lyons that we have the finest lamps in Navan and if he is really stuck we can source them for him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Mr. Talbot has a long list of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I thank the witnesses for the presentation, and I thank them for their work in this area and in other areas, including the document on procurement. Chambers Ireland has produced some very good pieces of work over recent years that will be very useful for the committee in the work it hopes to do. I will take questions from three members at a time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Are there any other comments on the issue? The COM has already been passed, so it is an adopted measure. Do we agree to note it and also express our dissatisfaction with not having had a chance to be involved in the process? I point out that it is a temporary COM providing for a reduction in customs duties up to November. We should ask to have a chance to debate it prior to November if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Is it agreed that we would write to the Commission expressing annoyance that we do not have a chance to debate it and also that this is not the right trade committee to deal with the concerns raised by the NGOs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: Is that a summary of people's thoughts on it? Are members happy enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: That concludes our EU scrutiny for today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Growth and Job Creation in Town and Village Centres: (Resumed) Chambers Ireland and RGDATA (24 Jun 2014)

Damien English: I welcome Mr. Ian Talbot, chief executive, Mr. Seán Murphy, deputy chief executive, and Mr. Mark O'Mahoney, director of policy, from Chambers Ireland to discuss measures to support business growth and job creation and their retention in town and village centres. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their...