Business, Enterprise & Innovation Committee to continue hearings on cost of doing business

The Joint Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation will meet tomorrow at 11am in Committee Room 4, Leinster House.

23 October 2017

The Committee will continue its hearings on the cost of doing business. Tomorrow, representatives from Chambers Ireland, the Irish Tax Institute, ISME and ICTU will appear before the Committee.

Speaking ahead of the meeting, Committee Chair, Mary Butler TD, said, “At tomorrow’s meeting, we will discuss the submissions made by our witnesses to the Committee on the cost of doing business in Ireland. The Committee is conscious that we must address cost competitiveness issues in the face of Brexit. Commercial rates, regulatory costs and lending rates remain a serious obstacle to growth in the SME sector. Tomorrow we will hear from a variety of representative bodies who will brief us on how Ireland can make real structural changes to increase its competitive edge by reducing the costs of doing business.”  

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Joint Committee Membership:

Chairperson: Mary Butler (Fianna Fáil)

Deputies:

Niall Collins (FF)
Stephen Donnelly (FF)
Tom Neville (FG)
Maurice Quinlivan (SF)
Noel Rock (FG)
Bríd Smith (Solidarity-PBP)

Senators:    

Aidan Davitt (FF)
Paul Gavan (SF)
Ged Nash (LAB)
James Reilly (FG)