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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he would advise this Deputy to respond to persons about Government housing policy, especially to those who are older, over 50 and renting, with no prospect of owning a home. [27449/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank everyone for their contributions and for preparing for this meeting. I appreciate the witnesses taking the time to come before the committee. I should probably declare some past interest in that I used to be a consultant to EI client companies and have worked for IDA client companies. I have some familiarity with the area, although there is no financial interest since I entered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: To be clear, regarding going over the threshold, there is still an ability to give grants above the threshold but it would require explicit Government approval through the Cabinet. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: On consultant quality, and I realise this may be a loaded question because I was a consultant myself, it is a competitive environment and Mr. Hughes cannot go into the specifics of individuals and private areas, but there is a question regarding oversight of the quality of the consultants who are engaged with client companies. How is it proposed to make sure it is the case that these people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I can take the answer in writing, if the witnesses prefer. It does not necessarily have to be today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Yes, that is fine. On the detergent level, I have just noticed that in many enforcement mechanisms, more generally, instead of having an absolute number of, say, up to €3 million as a penalty, certainly in data protection and other realms, percentage of revenue seems to be a particularly coercive measure that gets the right kinds of behaviours. Is there any reason this particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Okay. Specifically on the idea of an offence, and I am not a lawyer, so I am not sure if this is something most lawyers understand, but when something is named as an offence in legislation like this, what does this mean in terms of the enforcement mechanism that can then be applied?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Would that go specifically to the company in terms of how it is acting? Would it go to specific individuals in terms of what they signed off on? I am just not sure where the term "offence" leads us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Perfect. I thank Ms Kilcullen. On the state aid rules and the general block exemption regulation, GBER, will the witnesses talk me through the nature of the GBER and its impact on the change to state aid rules as it might apply? What would the state aid rules look like in a world where there is no GBER and then in a world with the GBER? I am quite interested in the area of state aid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: That is very helpful. I thank Mr. Lee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I have two small questions and I will then raise a big area of investigation under heading 7. On the budget split between the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, I ask for a sense of the budget allocation at the highest level. We are getting into budget season and I am curious about that. What is typically the ratio in respect of some of these grant allocations? How does it fall between the IDA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: The €180 million is for capital. Of that, €75 million is in property with the remainder being in grants to companies. Is that right? There is then €100 million for operating expenses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: That makes sense. Is there any chance the representatives of Enterprise Ireland might have the Enterprise Ireland figures off the top of their heads?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Excellent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: On infrastructure versus non-infrastructure, I know there are equity investments. Is that separate? How is that categorised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: General Scheme of the Industrial Development (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Okay, perfect. How does this grant allocation typically split between the IDA and Enterprise Ireland? Is there any philosophy for how these kinds of grants should be supporting these different types of sectors? Is that decided internally by the Department or by the Minister?