Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Progress Update: Discussion with Microfinance Ireland

1:55 pm

Mr. Pat Kilbane:

We are as focused on the jobs target as we are on the volume-of-lending target. The jobs target is 3,800 and the lending target is €40 million. We need to keep both in sight. It may be that the mix will be different. We may manage to generate more jobs with slightly lower volume support in lending because the range of products we are considering is slightly different from the original suite and may generate jobs at a lower level of loans per job.