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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed). (25 Apr 2023)

...teachers into the future. The framework was brought about through collaboration with our teacher support services, with academia and various universities and higher education institutions, and with IBEC. It gave this link to business and industry. I thought this might be of interest to Deputy Farrell.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...recently warned that the acute shortage of housing was causing companies to take drastic action. It said big businesses are now considering buying up entire housing estates for their workers. IBEC has identified the problem as being not just a chronic lack of supply, but a crisis in the supply of affordable homes. This affordability crisis, according to IBEC, is now a critical barrier...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: .... These are targets which will require serious urgency and ambition from the Government to meet but they are necessary targets because what we are hearing, and not just from families who are forced into homelessness but also from employers’ groups, IBEC and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, is that the investment in housing by the State which we are calling for is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023 (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. Evan Walker: The Deputy asked about the EAI. I did consult with that body. We had stakeholder engagement with all of the main representative bodies, that is, Wind Energy Ireland, EAI, IBEC and the Irish Wind Farmers Association. In addition to those representative bodies, there was also engagement with individual firms but they were all taken together. There were at least 30 entities...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (18 Apr 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Ossian Smyth who has responsibility for public procurement.   The SME Advisory Group, which meets quarterly, includes representatives from the Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation (Ibec), the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME), the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), Chambers Ireland and the Small Firms Association (SFA). The group has afforded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: ...all relevant stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.  My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: .... Housing supply has not increased and the cliff edge that is facing many tenants is adding huge pressure. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment spoke about enterprise and business. IBEC and Chambers Ireland, hardly bastions of left-wing ideology, will tell the Minister that the Government's housing crisis is now inhibiting the ability of businesses to recruit and retain...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some of the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (28 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some of the primary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

Paul Kehoe: On behalf of the committee I welcome Ms Claire McGee, head of education and innovation policy at the Irish Business and Economic Confederation, IBEC; Ms Helen McMahon, senior strategy policy adviser, Enterprise Ireland; Mr. Neil McDonnell, chief executive, Irish Small and Medium Employers, ISME; Dr. Aisling Soden, project manager, talent transformation and innovation department, Industrial...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some of the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...engaged with all relevant stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.  My Department also engaged with a number of schools,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (23 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some of the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (22 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...stakeholders as to how the scheme will operate. These included: primary school management bodies, unions, the National Parents Council Primary, representatives of booksellers and schoolbook publishers, IBEC, Retail Ireland, the Small Firms Association, Barnardos and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. My Department also engaged with a number of schools, including some of the primary...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...of what people are facing as a direct result of the housing crisis created by the Government's policies. The Government is not listening to that. Perhaps it will listen to powerful lobbies like the business lobby. IBEC, Chambers Ireland and others say that the housing crisis created on the watch of this previous Government and not addressed on the watch of this Government is impacting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...is lacking in scale and ambition, with a greater focus on crisis response that prioritises short-term fixes over long-term solutions." This is a similar theme to concerns raised recently by IBEC and Chambers Ireland regarding the Government's social and affordable housing targets. The Friends of the Earth report also highlights the significant barriers for lower income households to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (21 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...and special schools. My Department has engaged with all relevant stakeholders, including schools, management bodies, unions, representatives of booksellers and education schoolbook publishers, IBEC and Retail Ireland, as to how the scheme will operate. Schools were recently informed that my Department will issue detailed guidance in advance of the Easter break on the implementation of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Norma Foley: ...of the scheme. My officials met and engaged with the various stakeholders around the roll out of the new scheme. This included the Irish Education Publishers Association, Bookselling Ireland and IBEC. The scheme is being planned on the basis that the funding will be provided directly to schools to implement in time for the start of the 2023/24 school year. Schools were recently informed...

Seanad: Good Friday Agreement and Windsor Framework: Motion (8 Mar 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: ...and an all-Ireland charter of rights, the argument has been largely won on the necessity for both. We must, however, do more in this regard. The Good Friday Agreement ushered in a new approach to the growth of the all-Ireland economy. This approach is reflected in IBEC's latest report entitled For Peace + Prosperity.This approach is reflected in IBEC's latest report entitled For Peace...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: White Paper on Enterprise Policy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (8 Mar 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...there is resistance to doing so by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. I am not quite sure why the Department keeps going back to the Small Firms Association but it is a subset of IBEC. I think that it is very difficult to see how you can have an organisation that deals with the largest multinationals in the country and is also supposed to be dealing for the mom and pop...