Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

1:30 pm

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Companies can be supported in certain regards. Any company can be supported in mentoring, business development, management and so on. In terms of grant aiding, the principle has always been that a company needs to have export potential. Otherwise, we would be grant aiding one service company that was competing with another in the same domestic market, which would be unfair. That is the origin. In the case in question, it depends on what the company is trading to Kerry Group. If it is selling sandwiches to be eaten at lunchtime-----

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