Mr. Michael Kirrane:

There are other schemes in the State, run by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, that seek to attract skilled labour, and we do not want to cut across those schemes in any way. The investor programme is always looked on as a bit of a niche offering to address particular areas where it is seen that there would be benefits to the State arising from them. I am not sure how attracting skilled workers would dovetail with an immigrant investor scheme. We would need to think about that.