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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I have one question that does not relate to that specific area but relates to an issue on which the Minister may be able to help us. May I pose the question now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: We had a strong discussion in this committee on the EU-Colombia free trade agreement. I think a letter was sent from this committee to the Minister requesting a debate on the floor of the Dáil on whether the State supports the free trade agreement. There has to be a vote in the Dáil on whether the State supports the free trade agreement. Has there been a positive response to that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: As the Minister is probably aware the free trade agreement with Colombia is very contentious. It is not the average free trade agreement, if there is such a thing. We had a cross-party delegation meeting with Justice for Colombia, Trócaire and a large number of highly respected NGOs who are actively campaigning for the Government not to proceed with the free trade agreement in its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that. The initial statement was that the joint committee had sent a letter to the Minister asking for a Dáil debate on the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: It is our responsibility, as Oireachtas Members, to represent the Irish view. When human rights lawyers come to the Oireachtas such as Christian Aid Ireland, Trócaire, Latin America Solidarity Centre, Justice for Colombia-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: On the ability of the Competition Authority to fulfil its responsibilities, will sufficient funding be available to allow the authority to process all requests made to it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The new body will have ten new staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: What are the financial implications for the Department of the Workplace Relations Bill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I apologise and do not want to hold up the meeting, but I have a quick question pertaining to Programme B before we move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: My question refers to research and development tax credits. Are there any figures available which will help us to understand the impact such credits have had on expenditure, research and jobs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Such detailed information would be very interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: In the course of a year most elected representatives will have somebody contact him or her about having applied for a grant, giving out that they could not get a grant and the difficulties they had in accessing this, that and the other. What is the likelihood of the full drawdown of Enterprise Ireland and SFI grants this year? Is it likely that all the funding for the grants will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I ask that the Chairman bear with me for a minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: The system of local enterprise offices has been one of the major planks of the Minister's enterprise policy for the past three years. I wish the staff of the various offices well in their efforts. However, there is a fear among the enterprise community that the relationship between the LEOs and the local authorities, on the one hand, and the relationship between the LEOs and Enterprise...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: I refer to the budget for Enterprise Ireland. In June the Department submitted a detailed response to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform under the comprehensive review of capital expenditure process, which that Department is currently reviewing. When will the Minister publish his Department's submission? The Department has experienced a decrease in its budgets over the past...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Before we leave that focus, I refer to the possible development of a new mayor for Dublin and the possibility that FDI for Dublin would be under his or her remit. Surely that would be a disaster and would go against the current policy whereby FDI is centralised with the IDA? What are the views of the Minister on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: What does the Minister put that down to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: Are they typically more open?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Review of Vote 32: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (16 Sep 2014)
Peadar Tóibín: On the issue of Shannon, as we know, Shannon Development was set up to focus on a particular region. If one looks at enterprise policy in recent years, however, there has been a swing away from focusing on regions to focusing on the State as a whole. Is there a danger that a reduced focus on the Shannon region will result in a reduction in the level of enterprise development there? Perhaps...