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Web Summit contribution and visitors

Summary

Senators praise the Web Summit, its organiser Paddy Cosgrave and its economic benefits, while supporting an invitation for delegates to visit the Houses.

I agree with Senator Bacik that an invitation should be sent to the group to attend the Houses during next year's Web Summit. I am not referring to all of the 20,000 people. I met the group last night. The city was humming. Business has been created. I wish to pay tribute to Mr. Paddy Cosgrave who initiated the summit.

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He is a great lad.

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The Government and President should commend him on his contribution. I met one of the exhibitors from Roscommon. She was networking in the city last night, in which regard we assisted her. Seeing that number of people displaying such good behaviour and with such spending power was a most exhilarating experience. Senator Brennan voiced his difficulty with hotels, which was fair enough, but people last night told me that the cost was competitive compared with other cities. We must allow for that as well. The web people have very deep pockets and are well funded, so I am sure that they are happy and enjoying themselves in Dublin.

I rise to discuss the letter published today by Mr. Cliff Taylor. The entire group of letters should be published by the Government, even though doing so would not seem to be in its interests. According to The Irish Times, Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet, then president of the European Central Bank, stated on 19 November 2010 that "further emergency liquidity assistance ... would not be provided for the Irish banking system unless Ireland applied for a bailout." On 18 November, Professor Patrick Honohan jumped the gun for his own reasons and appeared on "Morning Ireland" to pressure the Government into accepting Mr. Trichet's diktat. At that point, I believe-----

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Paddy Burke An Cathaoirleach Fine Gael

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