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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions the Government is taking to improve the delivery of, and value for money in, infrastructure in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40003/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: His name was Kodzo Selormey.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I appreciate the Minister of State's commitment to this area and I do not doubt his sincerity but, like every single occupant of his office before him, he has been sent out with prepared remarks to defend the indefensible. He and this Government unfailingly refuse to reckon with the enormity of the problem in housing. The Government is tinkering around the edges of failed policies while the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I will start by paying tribute to a good friend of mine who passed away suddenly this month a year ago, after I was elected a councillor. There is a memorial service for him this weekend. He was a member of the Social Democrats and we served on the national executive of the party together. He was born in Britain of Nigerian and Ghanaian descent and he was deeply committed to making this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank all the witnesses for attending. I really appreciate their time. I know it takes a lot of time to prepare for these things and get all the materials together. I am a former small business owner myself and I have advised small businesses, so I have a decent understanding of different things. This meeting, though, is an education for me as well. I am not as familiar with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Okay. I will ask just one final question. To the witnesses from the SFA, there is an issue around not just access to finance, which we talked about a little, but also over-financial engineering, where some small businesses that have made their way into the newspapers might have taken on too much debt and made too many bets, putting what are otherwise profitable businesses into examinership....

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank the Cathaoirleach for organising this session. It has been stunning. I thank the witnesses for their advocacy and for appearing before us. I am shocked by some of the figures they have put before us and some of the things they have said. I extend my sincere condolences on the staff member in Sudan who was killed and the people in the organisations who have been let go because of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will be releasing the revision of the medium-term fiscal and structural plans to be submitted to the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39403/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2026 (15 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the new additional revenue-raising measures, excluding reductions in expenditure, that the Government has been advised to consider by officials in his Department as part of the budgetary process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39402/25]

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank the Minister for coming in. I welcome him back. I thank all of his officials for being here as well. To start off, I welcome the level of investment the Minister has put into regulation and into the regulatory bodies like the Workplace Relations Commission and the office of the Corporate Enforcement Authority and those kinds of areas. I really welcome the clustering strategy. It...

Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised) (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Yes, I have just two minutes. My apologies, it is €5 million. I am concerned we are not putting sufficient resources into the indigenous economy and are not sufficiently focusing on it. The temporary partial guarantee scheme has been halved from €15 million to €7 million and the science and technology development programme capital allocation is down. I wish to get a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank Ms Kennedy and Mr. Prendergast for attending today. I really appreciate their time. I know it takes some time to even prepare for these sessions so I appreciate them doing that. I am also delighted to have people who are numerate before the committee. It is unusual that I am in a place where I am talking to witnesses who have such extensive numerary qualifications. I want to take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I am new to understanding the regulatory area more generally, so I ask the witnesses to forgive me. I spent 15 years in the private sector, but mostly abroad. When they talk about the professional bodies regulating a lot of these members, what is the legal status of those professional bodies? Are they privately incorporated as separate legal entities? Are they public agencies? How do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Am I right to say that outside of these public interest entities, the members who are dealing with every other private entity would be effectively self-regulating?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I am talking in terms of the strike-offs Deputy Clendennen spoke about. The witnesses said they had some direct oversight of the private interest entities, but otherwise the professional accounting bodies are responsible for censuring their members in the case of malpractice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Would that be typical in other countries as well? I know it would be for the UK, but what about the US, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority: Engagement with Chairperson (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: It strikes me as a self-running guild in some ways. That can have its own advantages. That is not to say it is necessarily wrong. It is just to say that for somebody who has worked in the US for a long time, it seems unusual in terms of how you would think about regulation and a regulatory environment more generally with regard to standards for a professional organisation and professions....

Committee on European Union Affairs: Findings of the 2025 European Movement Ireland EU Poll: European Movement Ireland (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank both witnesses for coming in, and for preparing and giving us these valuable insights. The only polls that actually matter, as we say on this side of the table at least, are elections and referendums. As we go towards those kinds of political touchpoints with people, what I have heard indicates there is a lot of work to do. As was noted, it is the lowest level of support for the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule including the total number of notifications of proposed collective redundancies forms (Form CRN1) his Department have received; the total quarterly number of proposed redundancies contained therein on a quarterly basis from Q1 2016 to Q2 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (9 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the total number of jobs announcements he and his Department have issued to the press; the job creation numbers to which those relate, on a quarterly basis from Q1 2016 to Q2 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38085/25]