Dr. Senan Cooke:

Social enterprise is €1 billion sector. The potential in rural Ireland is enormous. All these people running big multinational companies are based in communities in rural Ireland. They can be tapped into. They will sponsor us, help us, give us expertise and connect us with the global economy. We are being offered this all of the time. When ask if we can do that, we are told then that we cannot. It is not in the criteria, that is not on and this is not on. I am asking the committee if we can all work together and see if we can get the new policy and then an implementation plan. If we do that, it will be a huge step for us.