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

Senior officials in the Department are exploring that. It is quite confidential at the moment. We give grants with EI in accordance with state aid rules. That is not all of what the companies want. We are engaging with them. EI has 1,500 clients on its books and is engaging one-to-one with the companies and the sectors. The answer is not to throw money at them. It is to have a targeted response so that the company and the agencies, EI and InterTradeIreland, will be confident that those companies will be vibrant and successful after Brexit.

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