Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

I will not be in a position to publish the draft proposals as I must first bring them to my Government colleagues. They will then be made available to the public.

It is proposed that the scheme will be administered by Enterprise Ireland, which has considerable experience of the stabilisation fund and the criteria set down for it, which are deemed appropriate. Those criteria will deal with the issue of deadweight, to which Deputy Varadkar has referred. It is not my intention that companies in the scheme will not be viable. Qualification will be based on viability and on opportunities, particularly for exporting, which will be available to these companies when the market returns to where it needs to be. The assessment will be based on the criteria set down by Enterprise Ireland and by agreement with a national monitoring committee, which will be set up to assure taxpayers and the people involved in the scheme that it will be working and that it is the right thing to do.

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