Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Robert Kelly:

What we are referring to there is actually a response to the experience of firms that may be exporting to the US. What we are saying right now is that in terms of firm supports, we should not necessarily be leaning towards broad fiscal supports for those. We should in fact be using State agencies to see how they can redistribute some of their trade flow, for example, and incentivise their own repairing-----