Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Mary FitzpatrickMary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail)

Is that not really the argument for a European-wide venture capital fund for start-ups, innovators and inventors? Dr. McDonnell is right that we are small, but we are not when considering we are part of a European Union and part of a European market. In that context, numerically we are small, but talent does not have borders. Talent is struggling and has to get on a plane to the United States for funding.

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