Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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One other programme in EI was the larger supportive innovation centres where it was paying for innovation site managers to come in and they were given a salary for a year or two in the hope that an enterprise would become self-sustaining. EI has supported a model like that in Waterford which has been very successful. I ask Mr. Carey to look at that again. I know some of the funding is now tapering off. I do not know if it affects the Waterford site but it may affect others. It is great that Mr. Carey well knows the value of getting entrepreneurs all together in a room where they coexist and work together in a facility and how that engenders ambition and expertise, etc.