Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is an opportunity for the select committee to consider the performance information on the outputs and inputs of programme expenditure. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and her officials from the Department. The Minister of State, Deputy Breen, is taking a Topical Issues debate in the Dáil and will join us shortly. I thank the officials for the briefing material provided which has been circulated to members. As they are aware, Vote 32 covers three primary areas of expenditure. Programme A covers jobs and enterprise development; programme B covers innovation, while programme C covers regulation. I propose that we examine the Revised Estimates programme by programme. We will start with programme A which deals with jobs and enterprise development; agency legacy pensions; InterTradeIreland; IDA Ireland; the National Standards Authority of Ireland; Enterprise Ireland; local enterprise development; the credit guarantee scheme; the INTERREG programme; subscriptions to international organisations; commissions, committees and special inquiries; legal costs and other services; the future growth loan scheme; and the humanitarian relief scheme.