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:

Our mandate is legislative- and policy-led. It is to support companies in manufacturing and internationally traded services. That is founded on the basis that we do not either displace industries by supporting one domestically traded industry versus another, and other principles. We operate within our mandate. I am delighted the Deputy has had good feedback on us. To follow up on her point on the councils, we work hand in glove with them on broader issues as well. Mr. Murphy's remit is the LEO funding but we have done work on regional enterprise-funded projects in regions to build up capability at an early stage, and infrastructure, to help businesses start. A lot of those infrastructures help domestically traded businesses as well as our own businesses. I would say there is-----