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Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...employers in the State to hire in a balanced manner from the local labour market and fulfils our EU obligations regarding community preference under the treaties. Third, it amends the 2003 Act to provide a defence to a migrant who is in breach of employment permit legislation despite his or her efforts to work in line with statutory requirements. These amendments address the Younis case,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Jobs: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (4 Mar 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...level outside Dublin and Cork. My challenge is how to get the midlands or whichever region to perform better and examine what enterprise strategy can be implemented, what the region's competitive strengths are, the IDA, EI and LEO strategies and how we can get the stakeholders in the regions to back credible programmes of action to drive a successful regional enterprise strategy. That is...

Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Richard Bruton: ...into the way we support those who start up. Deputy Shane Ross, while very generous in welcoming the Bill, questioned whether it was a landmark. I suppose that is a matter for debate. In defence of describing it a landmark, I would say there are well over 200,000 small businesses in the country and 16,000 incorporate every year. Some 24,000 people start up new businesses every year....