Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised)
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The target we have set for ourselves is an extra 2,000 rather than making it a percentage of overall numbers. EI is setting about putting programmes and funding models in place that can get a net increase of 2,000 over the next six years in the number of businesses that are trading internationally. That is, effectively, what the target is. What I do not have is a breakdown for how we achieve that 2,000 and in what year. I am not sure that precise data exists but the target over the next six years or so is to have an extra 2,000 businesses in that space.