Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation
2:00 am
Mr. Nick Ashmore:
Within its full thematic strategic areas of investment ISIF has climate investing, of which a large component is renewable infrastructure and renewable power generation. In our housing and enabling investments team we also do small-scale infrastructure financing, but very much on a commercial basis. We will step in where market finance is required, maybe where the market is not stepping up, where it may be a slightly higher risk, or where it may be at a slightly earlier stage. The longevity and persistence of ISIF means there is always going to be a commercial offering there to provide finance to small scale infrastructure but it is not a replacement necessarily for Exchequer funding of infrastructure. It is more complementary to this, to make sure that where market funding can deliver infrastructure there is a market and that we can support and encourage that market.
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