Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senior officials in the Department have explored the stabilisation fund and have discussed it in Brussels with the Commission. That will be difficult. We are conducting a targeted survey and we and EI are finding there are different requests from companies. Some are looking for more credit, some for cheaper loans, some want lean programmes to be initiated, some want to make sure there is more competitiveness. We need these responses and hard information before saying what we need.

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