Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

EU Supports for SME Sector: European Commission

11:40 am

Photo of Michael MullinsMichael Mullins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My questions were very similar to those of the previous two members. I join in the welcome to Mr. Calleja Crespo. He spoke a lot about promoting entrepreneurship and how only one in three people considered it as a way of making a living. How can one accelerate efforts to have young people consider the idea of being able to create a job for themselves and perhaps one or two others? Many of the areas represented by members are rural communities, in which large multinational industries will not be established. As a result, there is a real need to encourage young people to think about creating work in their own communities. Finally, Mr. Calleja Crespo spoke about a message of confidence. Can he quantify how he envisages this will manifest itself over the next three years?

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