Joe Lynam

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Welcome back.

It is 6.51.

The European Investment Bank is the finance arm of the EU.

It provides loans and grants for projects which it believes will support start-ups and governments, especially in the space of decarbonisation.

It funded the highly successful Lewis construction and the less successful unfinished National Children's Hospital.

The EIB has now launched a new toolkit for companies to see where the organisation can help and it's hoping to boost Ireland's almost non-existent district heating scheme.

Dermot Keogh is the head of the EIB here in Ireland.

Good morning, Dermot.

How are you?

Did I miss something?

Is there anything else we need to tell them about what the EIB does?

And I mentioned some of the decarbonisation projects that you work on.

Can you give us examples of other projects that you've co-funded or funded here in Ireland, apart from Lewis?

Sure, sure.

So we're across...

Certainly lower than any company would.

Social housing also?

Social housing, significant.