Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

2:30 pm

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

We have announced it for IDA Ireland. Extra resources will also go to EI and the LEOs, if we have money - I stated we were not totally finished spending on the current and the capital side. As I said, I am dealing with Ms Julie Sinnamon, the CEO of Enterprise Ireland, every second day and we are quite happy that EI is managing it really well at present. We must wait a number of months, probably until early in 2017, when Article 50 is triggered and then we will have to respond. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is also looking for it, in and around the difficulties of agrifood and agritech, the price of beef, the price of milk and the price of pigmeat.

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