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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The earlier thrust of my questions was about the level of co-operation but is there any group in society tasked with the objective of the equalisation of regulation? That in itself is a real barrier to cross-Border trade, cross-Border enterprise and cross-Border development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Is Mr. Henry saying that the secretariat would be involved in that work of the North-South Ministerial Council? From my knowledge it would not be an objective of each of the particular Ministers to equalise regulation on both sides of the Border.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I was lucky enough to work as a management consultant for a company that was delivering one of the programmes in the Tyrone-Monaghan area. It brought me into the offices and sitting rooms of so many small businesses on both sides of the community. People from both sides of the community had suffered greatly and it opened my eyes to a lot of individual experiences of members from both sides...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I know we had a representation from ISME. It was looking at the enterprise organisations in the State which actually only cover a minority of the enterprises. Obviously IDA, foreign direct investment and Enterprise Ireland would only take a small chunk of the 600,000 indigenous enterprises in the South and 250,000 of those may be covered by Enterprise Ireland and the rest are left to their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Do members have any other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Before we finish, does Deputy Michael Collins wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank the witnesses. If anything become apparent to the witnesses that would be useful to us in the coming weeks or months, we would be interested in hearing from them. If we can keep this communication line open, we would greatly appreciate it. I thank the Special EU Programmes Body for taking the time to come down to visit us.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government's Irish language policy is in disarray. According to the latest census, there has been a fall in the number of Irish speakers inside and outside the Gaeltacht, one in three school leavers do not have Irish and although 25% of parents seek Gaelscoileanna places for their children, only 5% get them. This policy has been gutted of money. English is compulsory in the State. For...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Níl sé ag obair.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Reports (4 Apr 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 628. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the report based on the NTA public consultation on rail here will be due for publication. [16017/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (30 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 259. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if information requested (details supplied) is with the management of Tusla; and if so, if she will provide the information. [15825/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I advise members of the committee to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the sound system and therefore their voices will not be caught properly by the broadcasting system. I have received apologies from na Teachtaí Dála, Martin Heydon and Éamon Ó Cuív. I propose that we go into private session to deal with a number of issues. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The committee has received correspondence from Mr. Bemis, who wishes to clarify the record of the discussion we had at the last meeting of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We will now go into private session while our guests for the next session join us. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We are now going to consider the topic of the future of community, social and economic development and co-operation in Border counties with representatives of Border Communities Against Brexit and the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, ISME. It should be noted that the committee invited the Confederation of British Industry in the North of Ireland to address us on this topic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: B'fhéidir go tosnóidh mé, más féidir. This is probably the biggest decision made affecting the island of Ireland for 30 to 40 years since our entry to the European Economic Community, as was the European Union. It is a decision into which we had no real input except for influencing people in Europe. I suppose we do not have a good record of that in this country,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: People were calling for two steps to alleviate this. One is that the North might have special designation. Indeed, the Dáil passed a motion that the Government should work for that. Is Mr. O'Hara aware of any efforts on the Government's part to seek what was mandated democratically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Does Mr. Sheridan believe it would be have been useful for the Government to sit down with the British to draw up something like a memorandum of understanding to at least set out the two Governments' goals prior to any EU negotiations so that we have publicly set out our objectives in partnership beforehand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. McDonnell said that 17% of businesses sought to change headcounts and 11% said they would possibly change location. That is startling information, especially given that he probably represents the sector of Irish enterprise which is most exposed to this particular issue. We hear that exports to Britain have reduced considerably in percentage terms over the last number of years. If the...