Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Leo Clancy:

We are talking about early-stage companies. It is done on a consortium basis, so it must have an SME involved. That is the first point to note. We have seen a lot of early-stage SMEs coming into it. They have tended to be companies that are more research oriented because it is a research funding programme, but it allows for companies of all sizes to come in. It is broad and open. We would be delighted to engage with companies that are trying to understand whether they could, as part of a consortium, apply. We would be happy to do that on a bilateral basis.