Feargal Purcell

Intent: Ensure understanding of the priorities of business in its call for greater diversification of funding streams to fund infrastructure delivery::Ensure support for business call for the ringfencing of corporate tax revenues for investment in higher education::Ensure understanding of business concern that raising carbon tax or excise duty may choke-off economic activity rather than encourage fuel switching or modal shifts::Ensure agreement that Science Foundation Ireland’s investment in research centres is key to delivering in areas of strategic importance to Irish business::Ensure understanding of the benefits of ringfencing corporation tax gains for infrastructure investment projects::Ensure political support for North-South Interconnector.

Details: Business priorities for the economy, infrastructure delivery, investment in education, low-carbon pathways, science research centres, and the North-South Interconnector

Intent: An understanding of the Irish Beverage Council's submission to the public consultation on the proposed sugar-sweetened drink tax

Details: Proposed Sugar-Sweetened Drink Tax

Intent: To further the stated policy aims of the Irish League of Credit Unions as set out in its Six Strategic Steps document and its detailed policy documents on funding for social housing, lending to SMEs and provision of micro-credit. To encourage support for and disseminate information about credit unions.::To advance implementation of ILCU's policy objectives by government and Oireachtas

Details: To lobby for the policy objectives of ILCU as set out in its Six Strategic Steps document and its detailed policy documents on funding for social housing, lending to SMEs and provision of micro-credit. To provide information to Oireachtas members on credit union issues of interest to them.

Intent: To further the stated policy aims of the Irish League of Credit Unions as set out in its Six Strategic Steps document and its detailed policy documents on funding for social housing, lending to SMEs and provision of micro-credit::To advance implementation of ILCU's policy objectives by government and Oireachtas

Details: To lobby for the policy objectives of ILCU as set out in its Six Strategic Steps document and its detailed policy documents on funding for social housing, lending to SMEs and provision of micro-credit

Intent: To further the stated policy aims of the Irish League of Credit Unions as set out in its Six Strategic Steps document

Details: Six Strategic Steps, the policy programme of Irish League of Credit Unions

Intent: To put in place remediation measures to address the unprecedented situation where all motor insurers find themselves liable for claims of Setanta Insurance and to request that General Insurers are not forced to act as a guarantor of last resort for their competitors. Specifically - amend the 2011 Insurance Act and amend the 2009 Agreement between the Department of Transport and MIBI

Details: On behalf of members, seeking amendments to the Insurance Act and the agreement between the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland and the Department of Transport

Intent: To highlight issues in relation to flooding and to emphasise the need for effective flood risk management including the construction of flood defences

Details: On behalf of members, to highlight issues in relation to flooding

Intent: That at March 7th's EU-Turkey summit An Taoiseach could convey the critical necessity to GOAL, and to the people we support, of Bab Al Hawa crossing remaining open to humanitarian aid

Details: An email to Feargal Purcell requesting that at March 7th's EU-Turkey summit An Taoiseach could convey the critical necessity to GOAL, and to the people we support, of Bab Al Hawa crossing remaining open to humanitarian aid