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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: We are delighted that Mr. Colin Fearon has appeared before the committee. Questions will arise through members engaging. I have a number of speakers listed - Deputy Dara Calleary, followed by Deputy Peadar Tóibín and Senator Feargal Quinn. I will take questions from Deputies Calleary and Tóibín to be followed by a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: Does the Deputy have any further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: I suggest Mr. Sweeney take a list of Deputy Callerary's questions followed by Deputy Tóibín's questions and respond to them all accordingly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: Did Mr. Prendergast want to explain some of the technology? We have approximately five minutes of presentation time left if the witnesses would like to use it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: We move on to Mr. Colin Fearon with his presentation from Grant Thornton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: Listening to the story about the next-door neighbour contacting the unemployed tradesperson, I remember when going to college in the late 1990s getting on the bus and seeing men get on with a bus pass - which I assume they had from the Department - in work gear. There is a culture in Ireland that believes backhanded payment for jobs is okay but the reality is that the State loses big time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents and Grant Thornton (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: The next item is a discussion with members of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents on proposed solutions to protect small businesses and the jobs they provide and Grant Thornton on the recently published report, Illicit Trade in Ireland. I welcome Ms Deirdre Drennan, Mr. Joe Sweeney and Mr. John Prendergast of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents to the meeting today to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: I believe Mr. Doherty wished to come in at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: Are there any final comments from any of our guests?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: Deputy Collins and Senator Quinn indicated before Deputy Conaghan. Does he wish to ask a supplementary question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: I have taken note of that, but the others will speak first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: Deputy Conaghan will ask a final set of questions. We will bundle all of the questions together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: It would be good if every group who presented to the joint committee were to confine their presentation to ten minutes. This meeting is one of a number being held countrywide by the joint committee on the issue of the black economy. We are very much aware of the problem and are trying to gather as much information as we can. The delegation from the Construction Industry Federation is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: We have two proposals listed on schedule A and 11 proposals on schedule B for decision. I propose we deal with schedule B first. It is proposed that the proposals listed on schedule B, apart from COM(2013)237, do not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed. The schedule A proposals are as follows. COM(2012)730 is a proposal for a Council Regulation amending Council Regulation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Effects of Black Economy: Discussion with Construction Industry Federation (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: I welcome Mr. Philip Crampton, president; Mr. Michael Stone, senior vice president; Mr. Tom Parlon, director general; Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick, director; and Mr. Dominic Doheny, vice president, of the Construction Industry Federation to the meeting to discuss the effects of the black economy on the construction industry. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (21 May 2013)

John Lyons: 412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details suppled)in Dublin 12 had their jobseeker's payment reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23796/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Constitutional Convention (9 May 2013)

John Lyons: 152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a decision has been reached on holding a referendum on reducing the voting age to 16 following the Constitutional Convention's recommendation; and if he is considering holding this referendum at the same time as the Seanad abolition referendum in October 2013.. [22085/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transformational Potential of Cloud Computing: Discussion with Microsoft Ireland (7 May 2013)

John Lyons: To give a very quick example, my two staff are upstairs at present reading e-mails as they come in. We have software the three of us use and if there is something in an e-mail that only I can look after, it is directed to a little app on this phone that will tell me what I need to do based on the workload coming in. Within that app I can send one of the guys up in the office a message to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transformational Potential of Cloud Computing: Discussion with Microsoft Ireland (7 May 2013)

John Lyons: I thank the witnesses for attending today. I apologise for incorrectly reading Ms Hallahan's name earlier. I hope everyone has a happy cloud week and hopefully some day we will come in here in a very different position technologically. The witnesses are right that the Government has a role to play in transforming how we operate services. If we do not do that, who will?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transformational Potential of Cloud Computing: Discussion with Microsoft Ireland (7 May 2013)

John Lyons: The Deputy is doing fine.