Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland

1:30 pm

Mr. Kevin Sherry:

I might speak first about the services sector, which accounts for an increasingly larger portion of our exports right across a whole range of areas, including financial services, education services, engineering services and so on. We work with a large number of client companies across those sectors. Services are different in that they are about selling confidence and relationships. That requires a different approach by companies. We do not provide support to service companies that are targeted solely at the domestic market; we are precluded from doing so under legislation. We do, however, through our potential exporters unit, work with small services companies which are seeking to export for the first time. We try to encourage and train those businesses to move into the export sector.

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