AmCham Roundtable with Chairman Brian Mast and Congressional Delegation

AmCham CEO, Paul Sweetman and AmCham Director of Public Affairs and Advocacy, Colm O’Callaghan, will be hosting a roundtable discussion with members of the House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, including, Chairman Brian Mast, and a high-ranking visiting U.S Congressional Delegation including, Representative Joe Wilson, Representative Ami Bera and Representative Jimmy Panetta.

The visiting Congressional Delegation sit on a wide range of Congressional Committees including the House Committee on Ways and means, the chief tax writing committee in the House of representatives, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which is responsible for legislation and oversight related to US foreign policy and diplomacy, the House Committee on the Budget, and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.  

Paul and Colm were joined by the leadership of a number of AmCham member companies to discuss the opportunities for continued growth in the overall US-Ireland relationship.

Among the issues discussed over the course of the meeting were:

• Addressing skills gaps for business
• The importance of Ireland’s unfettered access to the European Union’s single market  
• Transatlantic trade and tariffs
• The importance of Enhanced Transport Infrastructure for Competitiveness
• The US-EU economic relationship.