Professor Tom Cooney:

If I want to find the statistics on the breakdown of companies, businesses or organisations under each category I must go to multiple sources to piece it together. Currently, I cannot go to any central location to find out, under specific categories, the number of businesses that currently operate. We do not officially know the number of businesses operating in this country. We can put together close estimates but we cannot put together an exact figure.

If there was one central location it would help in terms of where those businesses are being set up. For example, we could have county leagues to see the number of entrepreneurial companies operating in counties. We could see how companies have grown by county over periods. There is so much we could do and learn if we had one central location but that does not exist currently.