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The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, says the NCC’s Cost of Doing Business Report provides a reminder of the need for vigilance and action on competitiveness if we are to support the strong economy and society that we all aspire to.

Local businesses are being invited to a free IBEC seminar at 9am on Wednesday, April 10 at Menlo Park Hotel in Galway. The IBEC Business Leaders Forums, in collaboration with Electric Ireland, will showcase growth stories from leading businesses in the region and will feature local business leaders such as Mike O'Flynn from Boston Scientific, Karl Flannery from Storm Technologies, and Dr Mark Bruzzi from NUI Galway.

Local business people are being invited to a free IBEC seminar on Wednesday April 10 at Menlo Park Hotel in Galway.

A proposed eight new toll locations which may be introduced on Irish roads will erode competitiveness, according to the Irish Road Haulage Association.

Commercial rates are set to be debated next Monday at the October meeting of Athlone Town Council following a motion put forward by Cllr Alan Shaw in September.

The IBEC group representing Irish business has just launched its new report, Ireland as a place to do business, setting out that Ireland is once again becoming a favoured location for foreign direct investment (FDI), a fact borne out by the IDA's recent mid-year review.

The Small Firms Association, the group that represents small businesses in Ireland, has announced that the SFA Better Business Show will visit Mayo on Wednesday, February 17 at Breaffy House in Castlebar from 6.30pm to 8pm.

Galway hoteliers have condemned as outrageous the decision by the board of the ESB to pay the 3.5 per cent wage increase under Towards 2016 (the first phase of the transition agreement).

Galway hoteliers have condemned as outrageous the decision by the board of the ESB to pay the 3.5 per cent wage increase under Towards 2016 (the first phase of the transition agreement).

Mayo hoteliers have condemned as outrageous the decision by the board of the ESB to pay the 3.5 per cent wage increase under Towards 2016 (the first phase of the transition agreement). The Mayo branch of the Irish Hotels Federation has questioned whether the board of the ESB has fully grasped the perilous condition of the Irish economy and calls on the Commission on Energy Regulation (CER) to intervene immediately and instruct the board to reverse its decision and to disallow wage increases in the calculation energy tariffs. It states that any increases would further erode Irish industry’s competitiveness, particularly when the focus should now be on seeking whatever means possible to reduce electricity costs.