Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Economic Recovery: Discussion with Chambers Ireland

3:20 pm

Mr. Seán Murphy:

It is done in partnership with Enterprise Ireland. It is a subset of FP7/FP8. The scale provided for five locations. Chambers Ireland put a lot of effort into helping our five chambers win the tender, but we gained nothing from it because the administrative costs are borne at the local level in those five towns, which cover a proportion of the country. The Sligo network, for example, extends as far as Dundalk. It all depends on how it is structured.