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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank everyone for being here. I have enjoyed the discussion so far. I am learning a lot about the challenges the witnesses' members face. I have a few broad questions I will put to everyone, but I will go to ISME first with a specific question on dual-use goods. It is keen to help SMEs to sell dual-use goods and tap into potential funding streams that are available. Does ISME have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I do want to move to those broader questions, but is Mr. McDonnell saying he does not believe the Department has adequate measures in place yet to improve the licensing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: What about the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The Department has responsibility for the licensing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Mr. McDonnell moved into that area of broader workers' rights. I would argue that our competitiveness in terms of attracting and retaining talent across Europe is problematic because we are an outlier in terms of collective bargaining, adequate wages and broader workers' rights. How do we make Ireland a more attractive place to work in, particularly around workers' rights?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We do not recognise the right to collective bargaining for a start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly so employers have no obligation to engage in collective bargaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: That does make Ireland an outlier. Employers are not obliged to do that. That is unusual across Europe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Would anyone else like to answer on broader workers' rights issues and how we can make Ireland a more attractive place to work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: What is the biggest thing the State can do to re-balance away from our over-reliance on FDI? This is something we talk about all the time to try to understand how we have got to the point where we are so reliant on FDI. With a view to growing the indigenous SME sector, what is the key measure the Government needs to take?

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I too welcome this joint motion and express my solidarity with everybody aboard the flotilla. I welcome the families of those Irish people on board those 40 boats. I will use my time to recall why these people are on the flotilla in the first place. Across those 40 boats, there are people from all over the world including politicians, artists, activists and ordinary people. They are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: It is reported in the Irish Independent today that at a recent launch of teen accounts Meta's head of safety essentially said parents are now responsible for what their children and teens view online, including the harmful things their teens view online. Our Government and the tech regulators in this jurisdiction are asleep at the wheel. The social media platforms are running rings around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank all the witnesses for being here. It is good to see Ms Costello again. Our paths crossed in a different life a number of years ago. I had a load of questions about datasets, but Deputy Crowe got pretty forensic on that and used up all my questions. It is fascinating to hear the witnesses' thoughts on this because it is so important. In my previous job in rights and equality, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Okay, excellent. Does anybody else want to add to that? No. Specifically on food insecurity and health, is there any potential divergence in that area? What does that look like? Is that within the institute's remit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Do the witnesses see any directives or EU regulations coming down the tracks now that they would have concerns about that would sharpen that post-Brexit divergence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Excellent. I have gone over time, so I will leave it there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I might shift specifically to alcohol and data. Are there particular issues around the data picture for alcohol-related measures and alcohol-related public health prevention areas? Obviously, for example, we have seen the alcohol labelling sadly delayed by the Government recently on what I would describe as the very tenuous basis of tariff concerns. Is this an area where we can do more as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank everyone for being here and for their statements. I had the privilege of working in this very specific area of digital literacy for older people. I worked in Google for a period. The flagship programme that we ran in the corporate social responsibility team was called age engage. I worked with many of the witnesses' organisations to develop programmes to help bridge that digital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Older People: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Exactly. There is a really interesting point within this. I have great admiration for the NGOs working in the ageing space in Ireland on older people's rights. They do an incredible job. There is great co-operation across the sector as well. This is addressed to Mr. Moynihan and to anybody else who has comments on this. Is the Government doing enough to include civil society in the...