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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...the bank account of the business. That is very important to ensure that we are listening to businesses. I have met with representatives of a number of business sectors, such as the Restaurants Association of Ireland, IBEC and the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, ISME. Many of the representatives are trying to get the message out to businesses that this is here to support...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Bruton: ...different from the environment in Ireland? On the food and drink sector, we just heard that only 35 people signed up to the food waste programme. FoodCloud has 150 members. Presumably IBEC has members in the waste sector and many others who are not in food processing in the supply chain. If this is something that we all recognise that we need to be on a rapid change then why is there...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (21 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...Group, the Irish Society for Autism, the National Council for the Blind Ireland and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland. Business passengers are represented by the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC), Chambers Ireland and Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, the IDA. In the past 3 years the IAA have met with the Passenger Advisory Group 3 times. These meetings...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...is not a view shared only by Sinn Féin and some other parties in opposition. It is also shared by organisations like the Nevin Economic Research Institute, NERI, and the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, IBEC. Under the stewardship of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil Governments, our housing crisis has reached diabolical and mammoth proportions. Today, we see another...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I have one other question. I am conscious that my time is tight and I do not think I will have a chance to come back in again because I will have to leave after this. I have to chair a thing at IBEC. I wish to speak briefly about the importance of high-performance computing in co-ordinating cutting-edge research, developing AI, etc. Do our guests know that Ireland's national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Draft National Energy and Climate Plan: Discussion (14 May 2024)

...is that the concept of just transition originated among unions worried about the impact of decarbonisation and workers not being listened to. I was on the task force with representatives of IBEC, social NGOs, the unions and farmers, and there was a strong consensus among the social dialogue stakeholders that there was a need for just transition to be very broad. The recommended...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

...a bit of that will happen now, where our MEPs – whoever is elected in a month – will be able to assist with a lot of Northern issues. There is close contact, for example, between the CBI, IBEC and the farmers. Farmers are particularly good at this. Farmers and fisheries North and South are good at keeping contact. I think on European issues, they will probably find that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Smith: ...north of Cavan-Monaghan have seen at first hand the huge benefits since 1998 of the developing all-Ireland economy. That is often the unsung part of the Good Friday Agreement. It is not talked about enough. We had IBEC here some time ago in the context of meeting the architects of the Good Friday Agreement and reviewing the benefits of it. It is an area that is not quantified enough....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...the east coast of America or elsewhere. The fund should have regard - this is the mildest of the issues - to the needs of certain sectors, which are already under constraint as a result of this. IBEC does not support the fund. That is surprising because naturally the suggestion would be that IBEC and business would argue for a fund like this to be established, but it has pointed out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

David Stanton: Does Guaranteed Irish have a relationship with employer organisations such as IBEC, the Small Firms Association, ISME and Chambers Ireland?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Consultations (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...and employees, particularly in the private sector, that specify a mandatory retirement age. What we are doing here is making changes in that regard. Regarding engagement, my officials met IBEC, ICTU and SIPTU representatives to discuss this last October and again as recently as three weeks ago. We are consulting widely on this and are listening to stakeholders. We are going to make...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Relations (18 Apr 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister's reference to the significant legal changes because we had an engagement with IBEC and the ICTU at the Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. During the course of that engagement, IBEC was very much of the view that no legislation would be required or very minimal legislation - I think it actually said “No” - whereas Congress took the view that...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...to a workplace pension. The joint Oireachtas committee held meetings with officials from the Minister's Department, the Pensions Authority, the ESRI and various stakeholders, including ICTU, IBEC, Irish Life and Insurance Ireland between December 2022 and February 2023. We set out a detailed pre-legislative scrutiny report and the main issues that arose during the pre-legislative...

Seanad: Cost of Doing Business: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...be paid at a rate of 50% of the business commercial rate bill for 2023. For qualifying businesses with a 2023 commercial rate bill of between €10,000 and €30,000, the ICOB grant will be €5,000. The Irish Timesreported in December 2023 that IBEC estimates that the annual increases in labour costs arising from these measures will exceed €4 billion. This...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...should utilise windfall corporation tax revenues to establish a fund dedicated to investing in domestic infrastructure instead of opting for a fund that allocates resources overseas. Various stakeholders, including NERI and IBEC have proposed such a fund, underscoring a widespread consensus that windfall taxes should be prudently managed and not immediately spent. We must also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Bia: Chairperson Designate (10 Apr 2024)

...initiatives ever conceived by a Government agency in Ireland. Through my 40 years in the Irish agrifood sector, I served as chair of Food and Drink Industry Ireland for 12 years and was president of IBEC in 2014-15, as well as being involved in many other strategic, advisory and advocacy roles. I have always admired the work of Bord Bia and have sat on the consumer foods board for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Secretary General met informally with a Director of IBEC on September 21st last at their request to discuss issues of concern to his members. Given that the meeting was informal no minute of the meeting was kept. Subsequent to the meeting, the representative wrote to the Secretary General seeking an ongoing process for engagement with the Department of Health. The Secretary General...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ... Guild of Architectural Ironmongers Gyproc Halt Hardware Association Ireland Health Service Executive Henry J Lyons Architects Hibernia Real Estate Group Ltd Hilti Ltd HIQA I3PT IBEC IJM Timber Frame Institute of Fire Engineers IPUT Irish Fire Irish Green Building Council Irish Institutional Property Irish Safety Systems Irish Timber Frame Manufacturers...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Louise O'Reilly: ...this Government is not interested in a rights-based approach for people with disabilities and their carers, it should make way for a Government that is. In the few moments remaining to me, I will reference the IBEC report Better Care, Better Business. I encourage everybody to read it because the statistics in it are quite stark. The one that jumped out at me was about personal mental...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

David Stanton: I congratulate the Minister and his officials on bringing forward this important legislation. I was seized by the importance of this legislation on 13 July 2022 when representatives from IBEC appeared before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The Chairman, Deputy O'Reilly, I and others were taken by the importance of the UPC Act and Ireland becoming part of the court....