Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not. The Department is extremely careful with money. All the moneys are audited and we get good value for money from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. My view is that more money is needed for the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, which would be money really well spent.

A question was asked as to whether programmes and local enterprise offices, LEOs, are evaluated. All the Department's programmes are evaluated. Return on investment is checked and while I would not cut them back in any way, they evolve over time. There often are balance shifts between lean programmes as the Department puts emphasis on different programmes at different times.