2. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [46522/25]
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Cuirim failte roimh an dul chun cinn atá á dhéanamh i leith saorthrádáil timpeall an domhain. Key to any free trade and any strong trading relationships is a strong, export-led economy driven by our indigenous firms. While the budget made some moves in increasing the attractiveness of entrepreneurship and developing an entrepreneurial economy, could other issues be considered such as setting up a number of metrics around how we measure the number of employees employed by indigenous SMEs and the proportion of corporation tax those companies pay? Can some funding be allocated or thought given to schemes designed to mentor new entrepreneurs from existing proven entrepreneurs who have been successful in this field? For those companies that we want to scale up and keep in Ireland can the Government make it easier for employee-share options to be made available in those companies to ensure everybody has bought into the success of those companies and that they are allowed to scale up? We need to scale up our indigenous industry and I encourage the Taoiseach to consider that too.
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14. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [46523/25]
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Before the summer, I raised with the Taoiseach the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe that is happening in Sudan, the fact that over 150,000 people have been killed and almost 14 million people have been displaced. Ironically, of all the conflicts in the world at the moment, the conflict in Sudan seems to be the one that has the most unanimity among European Union members. Therefore, I would call on the Taoiseach, while welcoming the recent renewal of the sanctions against members of the RSF regime in Sudan at the Council meeting in September, to say what we will be doing to further advocate for the people of Sudan and surrounding countries on the need to bring that conflict to an end, working with the African Union to assert its leadership role in the region and to ensure, in a conflict where the European Union has a united voice, that we can avoid the devastation of the thousands of people being killed and the millions being displaced and the fact that once vibrant cities such as Khartoum are now burnt out shells.
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