Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (Revised)
2:00 am
Eoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)
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Yes, I have just two minutes. My apologies, it is €5 million. I am concerned we are not putting sufficient resources into the indigenous economy and are not sufficiently focusing on it. The temporary partial guarantee scheme has been halved from €15 million to €7 million and the science and technology development programme capital allocation is down. I wish to get a sense from the Minister how he will reinvigorate the indigenous economy when thinking about the coming budget.