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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Do the representatives have any ideas about how initiatives such as this can be advertised? We are hearing repeatedly that businesses do not realise these schemes are available. Many of us do not have time to go through the paperwork. How do we target them? If additional tax was to be imposed, we would know about it straight away. Providing a cash payment for creating a job is probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: We will now bring the session to a close.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: I must move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: The question has been answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: The witnesses gave a more detailed answer earlier in the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee. I do not doubt we will engage with them again, although I hope the crisis will end soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: I welcome the following from Chambers Ireland: Mr. Ian Talbot, chief executive, Mr. Seán Murphy, deputy chief executive, and Mr. Barry Peak, policy and research executive. We hoped to have the witnesses before us earlier to deal with a report from the committee but it has not yet been completed. I apologise for the mix up. We will also be beginning a study of the retail sector which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Deputy Conaghan wants to make a quick comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Is the position on the security on loans going to get worse when we enact the insolvency legislation? Three years ago, there was much talk about retraining bank staff to deal with SME business plans, cash flows and so forth. Where are the plans with this? When a SME is refused credit by a bank, it is not always clear why and is often just a one-line rejection. If more was done on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Three members have yet to ask questions. I will take all three together because the joint committee is due to hear a second presentation. The order will be Deputy Áine Collins, Deputy Lawlor and Senator White.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: While I did not count eight questions, I am sure there were eight.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: If the Credit Review Office had the capacity to meet all clients before they went to their banks, would circumstances be improved greatly? There seems to be an absence of professional advice on putting together cash flow statements and filling out applications. That is a fairly common theme. When Mr. Trethowan was first here two and a half years ago, we suggested his office or one with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: I accept there is no capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Ideally, it would be a body such as the Credit Review Office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Does Mr. Farrell want to address those questions or wait until the next ones-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: I welcome Mr. John Trethowan, head credit reviewer, and Ms Catherine Collins, deputy head credit reviewer, from the Credit Review Office, and Mr. Pat Farrell, chief executive, and Mr. Felix O'Regan, director of public affairs, from the Irish Banking Federation. We appreciate their attendance here today. Before we begin, I remind members of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Damien English: Thank you. I now call on Mr. Farrell to make his presentation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Alcohol Sales (8 Nov 2012)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the total number of inspections by Revenue and Customs for under age alcohol selling, sale of alcohol outside opening hours, valid license and duty paid on Stock in 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of compliant inspections; the number of cases brought and the number of convictions as a result of these cases;...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Inspections (8 Nov 2012)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total number of inspections by the Health and Safety Authority for Compliance with Health and Safety Legislation/Existence of Safety Statement and Safety System in 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of compliant inspections; the number of cases brought and the number of convictions as...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland (8 Nov 2012)

Damien English: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of inspections that has been undertaken by the National Standard Authority of Ireland for spot checks on fuel dispensing units and weighting scales in 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of compliant inspections; the number of cases brought and the number of convictions as...