Economy would benefit from ‘exports supremo’

PROSPECTS for future economic success would receive a significant boost with the appointment of an exports supremo, according to a report by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs.

This new role is vital to promoting the interests of Irish-owned industry to maximum benefit overseas, it said.

It called for an urgent reconfiguration of the trade promotion portfolio to replace the Foreign Earnings Committee and said the Trade Advisory Forum could be achieved by establishing the position of the exports supremo.