Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I accept that. I just wanted to know what the process is.
With regard to leasehold properties, Enterprise Ireland rents 16 offices from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Department presumably own those buildings, which Enterprise Ireland leases from it. There were 28, and there are 16 that are due to expire in the immediate future. Is Enterprise Ireland looking at whether it is better to lease or buy in those scenarios? These accounts predate the war in Ukraine but since the war started, what has happened to the annual rent of €30,000 that was being paid for an office in Moscow?