Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I do not have a date for that Bill, but we are looking at ways of promoting more widely the various initiatives the Government has introduced in the past couple of years on non-bank funds. Yesterday I attended a meeting with the chief executives of the chambers of commerce and this was one of the issues we discussed. One of the difficulties is that many business people who should be able to access these funds do not know about their existence or how to go about accessing them. Legislation will be introduced shortly to provide for the strategic investment fund. We are also working on proposals for the establishment of a strategic investment bank.

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