Alan Cantwell

Intent: To brief Irish policy makers on Google’s investment in Ireland and to encourage policies supportive of innovation.

Details: Policy to support innovation

Intent: To brief Irish policy makers on Boston Consulting Group’s “Digitizing Europe” research and associated recommendations to support the development of the digital economy in Ireland and Europe.

Details: EU Digital Single Market Strategy

Intent: To brief Irish policy makers on Boston Consulting Group’s “Digitizing Europe” research and associated recommendations to support the development of the digital economy in Ireland and Europe

Details: EU Digital Single Market Strategy

Intent: To brief Irish policy makers on Google’s investment in Ireland and to encourage policies supportive of innovation

Details: Policy to support innovation

Intent: Ensure joined up thinking across the local authorities of County Dublin and Greater Dublin Area.::Create policies that make Dublin more attractive for residents, commuters, visitors and employers as it competes with other international city regions.::Development of a long-term strategy for the promotion of the region. Recognition of Dublin's vital role as a driver of national economic::Development of a long-term strategy for the Dublin Region out to 2050. Ensure that access to all existing hotels and car-parks is maintained.::Highlight importance of a reliable and speedy public transport network to the city.::Seek changes to fee structures for Dublin Port Tunnel and East Link Bridge to encourage increased use instead of travel through city centre.::Promotion of Dublin as a Digital Hub and the importance of this to the economy.::Protection of and improvement in the competitiveness of the Irish economy, in particular Dublin, in the wake of the UK decision to leave the EU.::Commitment not

Details: Improve the attractiveness of the Dublin City Region for all those that live, work, learn or visit the region.

Intent: Triple the capital investment envelope for projects in the Greater Dublin Area.::Create a strategy to address the transport 'bottlenecks' that will impact on the short, medium and long term competitiveness of the region.::Fund a regional implementation plan to ensure the competitiveness of the Dublin City Region.::Promote an increase in the density and height in the city centre to reduce the development of a donut region with high transport movement needs. This is pursued as a broad policy objective and does not focus on specific developments.::Achieve a balanced approach to transport policies to ensure modal shift by private car commuters while not damaging the city's general operation.

Details: Increase investment in infrastructure in Dublin to improve the efficient movement of people and goods into, through, and around the Greater Dublin area, particularly the City Centre, and to address previous underinvestment in infrastructure in Dublin and Nationally

Intent: Begin to tackle bottlenecks to growth by accelerating productive infrastructure investment by €500m in 2017.::Stabilise housing demand and affordability as supply increases by introducing a first time buyer savings scheme.::Increase the number of scaling businesses in Ireland by improving the CGT Entrepreneur’s Relief for a second year.::Help micro-businesses with less than ten employees to hire new staff by introducing an Employers’ PRSI tax credit.::Accelerate the ‘Building on Recovery: Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2016-2021’ using the majority of the fiscal space.::Increase Public Transport capital investment by a minimum of €1bn over the next four years.::Report from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the independent review group on Irish Water the implications for the Capital Programme of abolishing Irish water and funding water infrastructure investment through the exchequer.::Introduce a first time buyer deposit saving scheme.::Increase private funding s

Details: Seek the enactment of Dublin Chamber's Pre-Budget Submission 2017

Intent: To encourage Government officials, on behalf of members, to highlight the threat to UK-Ireland trade as a result of Brexit

Details: Provided contacts in Govt Departments with survey results and press release prior to release to general media

Intent: Education of key stakeholders

Details: Educate stakeholders about job creation prospects, infrastructure requirements and economic benefits

Intent: To secure a change in the tax treatment of Non-Executive Directors (NEDS) in respect of certain vouched expenses incurred in the normal course of their business.

Details: Review of the non-resident Non-Executive Director (NED) tax treatment in Budget 2016 and the Finance Act 2016