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Enda Kenny to take part in his first webcasted roundtable discussion

Taoiseach will meet with Irish businesses “to explore the growth, challenges and potential jobs opportunities arising from trading online”. And he wants you to join the conversation on Twitter.

TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY is getting his clicks on tomorrow by taking part in the first webcasted meeting from the Department of the Taoiseach.

The meeting is a consultation with ten businesses from across Ireland who either trade online – or want to – or use online to promote their goods or services.

Included in those businesses is online marketplace Adverts.ie (part of the Distilled Media Group), to Doyle’s The Butchers – about to go live with a new site – to auto parts and accessories online shop Mick’s Garage.

The event is part of the overall government jobs strategy, a spokesperson for the Department of the Taoiseach told TheJournal.ie this afternoon. The idea behind the webcast – which can be viewed at merrionstreet.ie from noon tomorrow – is to make the conversation public and to invite debate to inform jobs and digital strategies at the highest level of governance.

The Taoiseach said: “In broadcasting online, I want to start as broad a conversation as possible about the progress we can make in this area and help create more jobs in this country.”

To this end, the Department is pushing a #retailroundtable hashtag that they hope interested tweeters might use tomorrow to give feedback on what they hear in the webcast session.

The Taoiseach also noted today that Ireland spent €3.7bn online last year but that 70 per cent of that went to retailers abroad. He said:

Trading online offers a real and growing opportunity for Irish retailers to market their goods and services more broadly, make more sales both here and abroad, and retain or grow staff numbers. WE are taking steps, such as the new Trading Online Voucher Scheme to encourage more retailers to get selling online and we need to see what more needs to be done.I want to hear directly from retailers their experiences and needs, which is such a valuable part of getting our supports right.

Click back into TheJournal.ie tomorrow morning at 7.45am for a further dive into the challenges facing companies hoping to grow their business online.

The other companies involved in tomorrow’s podcast include fashion store The Whyte House, wineonline.ie, Vibes & Scribes books and crafts company, The Happy Pear greengrocers, Lifestyle Sports, Gutterman, a rainwater systems business, and training and coaching service Fresh Thinking.

Journal Media Ltd has shareholders – Brian and Eamonn Fallon – in common with Distilled Media Group.

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    Mute Audrey Byrne
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    Nov 8th 2021, 12:36 AM

    Seriously.. the cyber attack happened in May.. Ireland is a “Knowledge Economy “.. it should have been sorted by now

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    Nov 8th 2021, 9:32 AM

    @Audrey Byrne: just an excuse fo civil servents to do less work

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    Mute Michael Dikie Foran
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    Nov 8th 2021, 6:05 AM

    What do they mean additional resources just send the people who work there back to the office and do their jobs

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:29 AM

    @Michael Dikie Foran: births deaths and marriages worked from the office throughout the pandemic. They weren’t allowed work from home.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:42 AM

    @SmallbutMighty: Really…do you work there …recently when I tried to access the service I was told only a skeleton staff at the moment…appointments are being given out but could take up to 8 weeks

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:49 AM

    @In the paper: skeleton staff doesn’t mean some are working from home. There could be several out sick or at home with kids out sick from school.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 9:19 AM

    @SmallbutMighty: no they didn’t

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    Mute The Guru
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    Nov 8th 2021, 5:25 AM

    I know this is a radical idea but maybe, just maybe we could move this process online and eliminate the need for in person appointments and paper forms?

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:38 AM

    @The Guru: its registering the birth of someone. Like that’s Perry official. I think it really need to be done in person no. I can see electronic registering of births becoming wide open to fraud.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:40 AM

    @SmallbutMighty: pretty

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    Nov 8th 2021, 11:27 AM

    @SmallbutMighty: well they seem to manage it many other countries. It could easily be verified via the hospital.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:36 AM

    Recently I had to use some Government agencies..ring to talk to someone you get a machine…no-one rings back…email..you get ..no-one in the office ..all this due to covid…yet they can go out to ..pubs ..restaurants…nightclubs…HSE..Civil service members never want to work…now they have another friend …Covid

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    Nov 8th 2021, 7:25 AM

    We had a baby girl 2 weeks ago and had her registered and birth cert and all within a week.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 8:06 AM

    @Brian Dunne: Don’t be coming on here with good news like that Brian. You don’t seem to get the point of the comments section at all at all.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 8:32 AM

    @Justin Gillespie: lost the run of myself there Justin. Apologies to all involved.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 12:24 AM

    State instruments are stretched, not trying to be uncaring, but where you take the resources from to improve this?

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    Nov 8th 2021, 9:29 AM

    All registrations should be delayed until a DNA test is completed to confirm that the man who is signing it knows if he is the actual father of the child. There are too many cases today of men who are raising other men’s children thinking that they are their own.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 9:31 AM

    Yes its gaotic but a nightmare no . If registering babies is our biggest problem than I sign the contract straight away.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 5:12 PM

    It took me 11 weeks to get a copy of my birth certificate so I could apply for social housing, trying ringing the phone number advertised to be redirected to an automated service saying that they were unable to take phone calls and to send email, I sent 5 emails in total.

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    Nov 8th 2021, 9:31 AM

    Yes its gaotic but a nightmare no . If registering babies is our biggest problem than I sign the contract straight away.

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