Aidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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530. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on plans outlined in the Programme for Government to explore opportunities to enhance the Irish Stock Exchange, as a vital source of equity and growth for indigenous businesses. [23762/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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In supporting Ireland’s SME’s /indigenous businesses to ensure future growth, work is currently ongoing in my Department to implement the recommendations of the July 2024 Report of the Finance for Scale-ups Working Group. Three high level recommendations were presented in this report, with the aim of developing the market to deliver more efficient outcomes for Irish companies with ambitions to scale-up:

1. Public funding, to directly add supply of capital to the market with State-backed scaling funds.
2. Incentives to direct existing private capital, including pension funds, in the Irish market towards scaling investment funds.
3. A review of the tax model and design instruments that incentivise investment into scaling companies.