Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. John Hughes:
I thank the Deputy. Environmental aid grant will be available to all current and potential IDA client companies. There could be grant aid assistance but, as we described previously, it would go through the various due diligence processes before any grant can be triggered. At present, we cannot have a specific environmental aid grant. This must come under some of the other headings so we are looking to incentivise and accelerate both the pipeline of companies for the IDA which could be coming in from the AI space and others as well as the existing client space. This will give us an extra tool to have in the green and sustainable sector rather than traditional fossil fuel energy sources.
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