Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My next question was to have been about crowd funding because it is an area I have a lot of interest in and one that is vastly under-utilised in terms of funding opportunities for Irish SMEs and micro-businesses. How does Mr. Carrigan envisage making the crowd funding model more accessible to Irish SMEs or somehow legitimising it as a funding opportunity for fledgling Irish businesses? What opportunities does this present to make crowd funding a more viable option in the future or does it present any? It is just something the Department has identified where it sees an opportunity?