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Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the officials of both harbours for facilitating both visits. Ports have two key roles in supporting offshore wind energy. They can serve as an operations and maintenance base for an offshore wind farm. Larger ports with extensive infrastructure can provide construction or marshalling services. Several Irish harbours are suitable as operations and maintenance bases. Each base...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ..., chartered director, chief executive officer, Institute of Directors in Ireland; Ms Karen Hennessy, chartered director, Institute of Directors in Ireland member and chief executive of Real Leaf Farm; and Ms Anne Mannion, head of marketing and communications, Institute of Directors in Ireland. Before we start, I wish to explain some of the limitations to parliamentary privilege and the...

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jul 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...has never been more important to build energy security in our own country. This will be good for businesses, consumers and the entire economy. Ireland has huge potential to develop offshore wind farming but we need to ensure ports and coastal communities are supported in these efforts. That support is seriously lacking at the moment. Unfortunately, Belfast's D1 harbour, which I hope to...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...Court decision in Reid v. IDA, where Mr. Justice McKechnie set aside the first compulsory purchase order made under section 16 of the Industrial Development Act 1986. The case in question concerned a farmer in County Kildare who successfully challenged the State and the IDA over a compulsory purchase order in respect of his farm which is located next to a major multinational in Leixlip....

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...and Environment Institute at Tufts University, demonstrates that CETA will cause, inter alia, 200,000 job losses in the EU by 2023, significant wage compression, a decline in the labour share of income, a net loss of governments’ revenue, and net losses in gross domestic product of signature parties; —that the Irish beef farming sector is particularly vulnerable to the...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (16 May 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...held on the CETA, yet the Government continues to ignore the issue. Sinn Féin has serious concerns about aspects of the deal and believes parts of it will have a negative impact on Irish SMEs and the farming community, in particular. Legal advice obtained by my colleague, Matt Carthy, MEP, has indicated that the investment court system contained in the CETA is not compliant with the...

Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: We are all aware that the farming and agrifood sectors will be particularly exposed to the effects of Brexit. Some commentators have suggested that we might be able to attract foreign direct investment. However, jobs that are lost in the agrifood sector will be lost straight away. The European Union Committee of the House of Lords recently published a report on the impact of Brexit which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the beef sector specifically. Given that 5% of Canadian farmers produce 50% of Canada's agricultural output, how are Irish farmers going to compete with hormone injected, capital intensive factory farms housing up to 20,000 animals? That is the major concern that I have been hearing from farming organisations.

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (3 Nov 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: I just want to know when we will debate this issue. We have been raising this issue and the House needs to debate it. I have spoken to farm organisations and many of them have huge concerns about the deal. It is best that we debate it in this Chamber.