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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: Great minds think alike.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: The Minister mentioned some universities. Was any institute of technology included in that list?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: How were the criteria determined for which universities would receive funding?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: The extra expenditure of €40 million will be funded through a €34 million capital underspend and a current expenditure underspend of €6 million. Is it surprising that Enterprise Ireland has €17 million in savings on the capital expenditure side? Has any of this money been committed to be spent next year.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: To reiterate what the Minister said at the start, the Supplementary Estimate is a redistribution of moneys already voted on. It does not include any additional Exchequer funding for the Department. Was the Department happy that it did not receive additional funding? Is everyone delighted with the additional funding?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: We are all in agreement in that regard.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: Yes.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: I understand from where Deputy Maurice Quinlivan is coming because there was concern at the time of the trial that they did not have enough staff.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: When one sees money coming back-----
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (6 Dec 2017) Mary Butler: That concludes the select committee's consideration of the 2017 Supplementary Estimate for Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation. I thank the Minister and her officials for attending. I note that there is a division in the House.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 32 - Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: I remind members, visitors and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to flight mode for the duration of the meeting, as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when left in silent mode. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire. I now invite Mr. Martin Shanahan to make his presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Shanahan. Deputy Neville has to leave for another meeting so if he wishes to ask the first question, he may do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: Would the Minister like to deal with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: Do not worry. The south east will be coming shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: Would Mr. Shanahan like to contribute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: Deputy Eugene Murphy is welcome here today. If he has any questions, he is more than welcome to ask them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: The emphasis of the meeting is on competitiveness and jobs growth. I welcome Mr. Shanahan's comments that Ireland has areas which require attention and improvement. Recently, this committee travelled to Waterford, where I am from. We decided the committee would visit the regions for perhaps one visit per quarter. As my colleagues will testify, there is a Limerick bias on the committee,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion (6 Dec 2017)
Mary Butler: To be fair, there has been great collaboration between the five local authorities and their chief executives who have come together, and they attended that meeting we had. To go back to the point I made, 45% of the PAYE income tax per head is the average that comes from that region. Those figures do not lie and they point out that everything is not rosy in that particular area. The...