Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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730. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress on establishing strategic spares for the water system, the electricity grid, including transformers, pumps and bearings; the planned funding lines to support this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47211/25]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The resilience of Ireland’s economy relies on ensuring that our enterprise base has the certainty it needs to operate and plan for the future, including in the case of sudden or unexpected events. These include potential disruption to the essential infrastructure that enterprises rely on, whether as inputs to products, to transport those products to relevant markets, or to facilitate the movement and wellbeing of their employees.

With that in mind, I acknowledge the necessity for strategic spares across the vital infrastructure networks on which our enterprises depend.

While these issues are of key relevance to industry, tourism and employment, responsibility for these networks and attendant equipment ultimately lies beyond the remit of my Department. Consequently, the information sought by the Deputy is not held in my Department. The specifics of this question may be more pertinent to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, as well as to the responsible state bodies.