Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Ms Siobhán Finn:
For our sector, there are two specific areas. One is addressing the operational costs of running the enterprise centres, salaries being key to that. The second is unlocking the National Training Fund. We have significant learning and development needs in the sector and there is huge ambition among staff in the sector to avail of training, but we do not have the funding to do it and it is incredibly difficult to access it.
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