Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

It will ramp up towards €10 million a year. Regarding the size of the companies, this programme applies to employees of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, as defined by the European Commission. Medium-sized companies, according to the European Commission, are relatively big in an Irish context. They can have up to 250 employees. Therefore, there could be a relatively big company employing, say, 249 staff, with a turnover of €200,000 per employee. That would be at the upper limit of employees who could qualify for KEEP.