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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Clancy think there has been a change in culture I mentioned in terms of how apprenticeships are viewed? If a son or daughter is doing an apprenticeship, it could be in ICT or something that could lead to a very high-quality job with very high-earning potential. Is the snobbery, for the want of a better term, something that we need to counter?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: What could be done to alleviate that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: It would solve a lot of problems with the labour shortages and also a lot of headaches for parents with children in third level trying to find accommodation at a time of chronic shortages. Third level institutions are fairly maxed out. The competition to get places is very high, but it looks to me that the internal capacity in educational institutions is also at a maximum. What level of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is there a nominee on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: On the advisory committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I imagine oversight can be challenging
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: What number of companies fit into that category?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: What percentage of them have operations outside Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: How does Enterprise Ireland have oversight over that if a significant part of the investment goes out of the State?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: One figure I saw - I do not know if it is correct - is that over the past ten years in the region of €480 million has been invested in venture capital. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is the largest single investment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: How is the decision made on selling the equity in the investment? At what point does Enterprise Ireland do that? What considerations are involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Enterprise Ireland retains the investment until the company decides otherwise. At that point, is the return on the State investment fruitful?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I understand the divvying out. The question I am asking is if it is a beneficial or fruitful return.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: I get that. The specific question I am asking concerns the point at which it is sold. Is the return generally fairly good?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is the value of investments written off in the past three or five years? Does Enterprise Ireland have a figure for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: How many companies are we talking about?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: Does that total figure include companies that were merged?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)
Brian Stanley: There have been claims that companies have been bought for a nominal fee, such as €10 or €1. Where they were bought by another Enterprise Ireland-funded company, they are not counted as investment losses. Is that the case? Explain how that works. Where there is a write-off and the company is bought by another Enterprise Ireland-funded company, what happens?