Shay Brennan (Dublin Rathdown, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State and very much welcome her commitment to the digitalisation of SMEs. I note that the fund is linked to the EU recovery and resilience facility and that this facility is not planned to be continued beyond 2026. It is vital that we in some way delink ourselves from that facility and that we continue to fund the vital growth of digitalisation within Irish SMEs. As we discussed yesterday during the very useful debate on AI, Ireland can and very much should be a leader in this space. It can only really achieve that status if we fund it correctly and give it the status it deserves.

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