Ms Catherine Collins:

I am not sure what the Credit Review Office can do. For example, Enterprise Ireland has female entrepreneurship high up on the agenda and it has much work going in trying to promote start-ups from women.

The start-up situation is not somewhere that bank finance would always play. One needs capital and equity for businesses in a start-up situation and that is where the county enterprise boards, Enterprise Ireland and other such supporters, and the microfinance fund would play quite strongly.