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Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2016)

Paschal Mooney: Last week I referred to the figures for IDA Ireland visits that had been revealed in response to a parliamentary question tabled by my colleague, Deputy Calleary. I was pleased to report that there had been a significant increase in the figures for the north west. I mentioned specifically that my own county, which had recorded nul pointsup to now, had received eight visits and that County...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Paschal Mooney: ...of Business that No. 79, motion 15, be taken today. Like other Members of this House, in particular those from the north west and the west, I have railed about the lack of evidence of a commitment by IDA Ireland to explore job opportunities in the regions. Deputy Dara Calleary tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation inquiring, as he does every...

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2014: Statements (3 Dec 2014)

Paschal Mooney: ...Will the Minister address the MNBA issue and provide some indication of what is happening with regard to either the provision of alternative employment or the restructuring of the facility? What is IDA Ireland doing about the matter at present? Is the Minister in possession of any information he could provide to the House in order to give some sort of comfort to the people in my area?...

Seanad: Action Plan for Jobs 2014: Statements (3 Dec 2014)

Paschal Mooney: ...and the indications are that it is going to create even more. Will the Minister indicate if it would be possible to attract even more companies to the hub? In the context of study visits, could IDA Ireland refocus its efforts to concentrate on companies which might be involved in activities similar to those carried out by the businesses already located at the hub? Would what I am...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)

Paschal Mooney: ...some 1,100 employees from all over the hinterland of Carrick-on-Shannon when it opened. There are people in my hometown of Drumshanbo who will be out of work today. What have the Government and the IDA been doing about it? They have been doing damn all, with due respect. There has been one visit by the IDA to my county in the last couple of years and we do not even know where it was....

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)

Paschal Mooney: ...will be an emphasis and focus on human rights and overseas development. I look forward to wishing the new ambassador every success in his or her new role. I wish to draw attention once again to IDA Ireland's regional policy on job creation. It has been established in response to a parliamentary question tabled by my colleague, Deputy Calleary, that my own county of Leitrim received just...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

Paschal Mooney: ...context. This request comes in response to ongoing announcements of job creation, which is taking place almost exclusively in Dublin. To emphasise the point, recent statistics indicate that IDA Ireland organised in excess of 250 visits to sites in the Dublin region in the past 12 months, whereas in Leitrim, Sligo and many other counties in the north west and elsewhere, there was no more...

Seanad: Register of Lobbyists Legislation: Motion (26 Jun 2013)

Paschal Mooney: ...head of a major multinational informed a US Senate committee that he had done a deal on the side with the then Government in respect of corporation tax. Even though the current Administration and IDA Ireland have denied this was the case, the charge that a side deal relating to tax was done with the Government of the day in the early 1980s remains. If we do nothing else, perhaps we will...

Seanad: Future of Further Education and Training: Statements (20 Feb 2013)

Paschal Mooney: ...Cork and Limerick. As I come from the west and north west, like the Minister of State, I am concerned about this difficulty. The Government cannot be blamed for this. I spoke with somebody in the IDA recently about the regional imbalance and the lack of visits by the organisation to various counties in the north west and western seaboard as distinct from visits to the eastern counties....

Seanad: Employment Support Services (19 Jul 2012)

Paschal Mooney: ...north east. I expressed the hope that it would give unemployed people a real opportunity of finding meaningful and sustainable long-term employment. I was disappointed that the chief executive of IDA Ireland, Mr. Barry O'Leary, more or less seemed to dismiss any concerns arising from the announcement that was made by the PayPal executive. It was reported that he said it did not really...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Jul 2012)

Paschal Mooney: ...to have confidence in Ireland and in the Irish economy. He went on to say that he had travelled throughout Ireland and had visited every county in Ireland. I wish the same could be said of IDA Ireland. Two weeks ago, our finance spokesperson in the other House tabled a parliamentary question on the policies of IDA Ireland. The question concerned the manner in which it goes about its...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2012)

Paschal Mooney: ...how it would be implemented, we support the broad thrust of it and, therefore, I formally second his proposed amendment. I raise an issue which was reported in yesterday's national newspapers on the IDA policy on the location of jobs and industries throughout the country. A parliamentary question tabled by my party colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, elicited the information that the IDA...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Paschal Mooney: ...'s jobs announcement. That has to be welcomed, particularly so given that it affects areas of County Galway which are experiencing high levels of unemployment and emigration. I commend the IDA, which is involved in a long lead-in time with many of these companies. The Government of the day always reaps the public rewards but none the less these are real jobs and it is heartening to hear...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)

Paschal Mooney: ..., recorded a song many years ago that I will paraphrase by saying we will all be Irish tonight; everyone abroad will be Irish for the week and I hope, with the help of Ministers, Enterprise Ireland, IDA, the Irish diaspora and all of those networking throughout the world for the week, that it will result in the attraction of more visitors and more jobs. I applaud them for their efforts.

Seanad: Immigrant Investor Programme and Start-Up Entrepreneur Scheme: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: ...wish to take up too much more of the time allocated to me other than to make that point. Prior to his elevation to ministerial office, the Minister, Deputy Shatter, and I held several meetings with IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland to try to encourage the State agencies to encourage more venture capitalists, especially those from the Jewish diaspora, to come here. The Minister may...

Seanad: Export-led Growth: Motion (19 Jan 2011)

Paschal Mooney: ...led by Germany. There are some pertinent statistics in the foreign direct investment area. We are number one in the world for jobs created by foreign direct investment and figures released by IDA Ireland show that almost 11,000 new jobs were created in 2010, more than double the number created in 2009. I know that on the negative side some 9,000 jobs were lost in the sector, although we...

Seanad: Fish Quotas: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Paschal Mooney: ...who are developing a value-added food chain and selling our stocks internationally in a variety of guises should be further encouraged and supported as needed because I see no difference between IDA Ireland supporting a manufacturing industry from abroad and a local entrepreneur, as has happened around our coastline, who has developed a particular product line as a result of our fish...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: ...bulwark on which this country has not only survived, but flourished during the past 40 or 50 years under successive Governments, will continue being an important source of new jobs. I praise the IDA. In the most difficult of times, it is still out there battling and competing. Major international firms still have confidence in Ireland as being somewhere they can locate jobs. The new...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Statements (4 Mar 2010)

Paschal Mooney: ...Britain, that these visits are gruelling in their intensity but that what is important - Ministers do not complain about this - is that Ministers are on the top of a pyramid which involves the IDA, Enterprise Ireland, Tourism Ireland, local Diaspora organisations and the business communities in the cities and countries they visit in ensuring that not only are important business connections...