Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary)

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Some of them have responsibilities to create their own energy and have committed to doing so. Regarding future development of data centres, in light of the shortage of supply for the coming years, a limited number will be allowed and they will have to prove how important they are to Ireland Inc. That is part of their journey.

On future schemes, we are constantly working with our agencies - IDA, Enterprise Ireland - to track the number of companies who might need other assistance. Some of those scheme under the frameworks are linked to turnover and profits. We are not-----