Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) ISME, Startup Ireland, Cork Innovates and IDA Ireland

1:30 pm

Photo of Dara CallearyDara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I wish Mr. Costello good luck with the new mission. The target of making us a global start-up hub by 2020 is ambitious when we are not on any of the maps at the moment. If Mr. Costello was supreme leader and did not have to worry about the Dáil or Seanad or democracy, what are the first two things he would do to reach that target?