Mary Butler

Increase access for small businesses to public procurement opportunities::Secure commitment to analysing the rate of cancelled or non-progressed competitions::Reduce the cost and administrative burden of tendering for public contracts

Highlight the challenges that rising business costs are posing for small companies::Ensure understanding of the impact of increases in the National Minimum Wage on SFA members::Secure commitment to a whole of government approach to tackling rising business costs

Ensure understanding of retail's position on increasing commercial rates arising from the National Revaluation Programme

Ensure understanding of the retail industry's position on the need to fund in work education and training programmes

Ensure understanding of the current position and future outlook for the Irish retail industry

Reform of local authority rates::Measures to reduce the cost of employer and public liability insurance::Control of labour costs through sustainable evolution of the national minimum wage::Increased policy focus on the better regulation agenda

Adoption of business priorities for the South East region in the National Planning Framework Ireland 2040

Seeking the implementation of 2008 Labour Court recommendation on the establishment of the pension scheme in question

Pay equalisation for post 2010 entrants to teaching

Improved and establishing funding for programmes, initiatives, infrastructure, services, policy and legislative work impacting the lives of Irish women;specific focus included Childcare, pension equality, gender budgeting, tackling violence against women, promoting women in…

Raise awareness of essential services that are available in rural areas and the challenges and opportunities for these services

Changes to Atypical Scheme and immigration permission for Fishers.::Increased meassures and supports to identify and tackle exploitation in the fishing industry

Changes to excise duty on alcohol::Changes to policy on alcohol retail

To exclude any amendments that would bring pregnancy counselling under the scope of this proposed legislation.

To increase understandiing of the impact of the scheme on early years providers