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Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ministerial Meetings

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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635. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of meetings she has had with officials from Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and Science Foundation Ireland on Brexit-related matters in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25416/17]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I have met the CEO of Bord Bia and members of her management team on a number of occasions since the Brexit vote, most recently last Friday when we met with senior ASDA executives in Leeds as part of our ongoing engagement with retailers in the UK. During that meeting we outlined the challenges that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union will present, the most immediate being the significant drop in the value of sterling against the euro.

I have also met with the CEO and her team on the international trade missions to China, Morocco, the Gulf Region and Germany, where Brexit was also a major focus of the discussions.

I and my officials work closely with the Bord Bia team and they are represented at senior management level on my Department's Brexit Stakeholders Consultative Committee (last meeting 11 April 2017) and the Interdepartmental Subgroup on Agri Food (next meeting 14 June 2017).

Given the critical role Bord Bia plays in helping to mitigate the impacts of Brexit, I also allocated significant additional resources to it in Budget 2017 in order to provide Brexit-related supports to affected companies, including through its new Brexit Barometer.

The CEO of Bord Bia sits on the FW2025 High Level Implementation Committee and Brexit is included as a standard item on the agenda of each meeting.

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