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
Mary 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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