Intent: Ensure awareness of the new skills required in Ireland’s financial services sector and make recommendations
Details: Financial Services Ireland campaign “Financial Services in Ireland – Skills of the Future”
Intent: Relevant public officials were updated
Details: To advise that Benefacts' funding relationship with DPER is finishing and Benefacts would cease trading on 15th March 2022
Intent: Provide with copy of 2021 Annual Report
Details: To provide a copy of Benefacts Directors Report and Audited Financial Statements for 2021
Intent: Ensure awareness of Ibec's latest campaign, 'Ireland: Towards a Model of Sustainable Substance'
Details: 'Ireland: Towards a Model of Sustainable Substance' Campaign
Intent: Acknowledgment of report
Details: Coverletter and copy of Philanthropic and Charitable Giving Report
Intent: A number of meetings agreed.
Details: Offering to arrange a meeting to discuss the benefit case, an outline business, governance and funding model for Benefacts beyond 2021.
Intent: Ensure awareness that, while Ibec is forecasting an increase in GDP of 6.5% in 2021 on the back of continuing export momentum, this growth is reflective of a very unstable period with COVID-19-driven base effects, Brexit and other international dynamics all leading to volatility in the figures::Understanding that, from a business perspective, the enthusiasm from a partial reopening of the Irish economy has been somewhat dampened by growing fears of competitiveness pressures driven by both rapid international price increases on key goods and freight and domestically by emerging labour shortages
Details: Current domestic and global economic landscape
Intent: Ensure understanding of the immediate and substantial challenges that Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic are presenting to businesses, particularly to those with all-island operations::Increase awareness of the ‘manifesto from business for a shared island’ being prepared by the Ibec-CBI Joint Business Council
Details: All-island economy
Intent: Good data outputs on disability at National, regional and local level as part of the next census
Details: Submission to the Central Statistics Office
Intent: The inclusion of our suggestions on data related to volunteering in the final outputs plan.
Details: Submission on the Census 2021 Outputs
