Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If we look at Enterprise Ireland's future direction in terms of scaling, we are commencing a pilot programme focused on building supports for very high-potential scaling companies. We are driving several top, high-potential early-stage companies through seed and venture funds and direct, pre-seed and seed investment endeavours. We are focusing on accessing the ability to increase the number of large companies to avail of the funding opportunities with a view to increasing the pipeline by 50% by 2030. We have, therefore, set some pretty ambitious targets. We effectively want to increase the number of high-potential scaling companies by 50% over the next six and a half years.