Ms Julie Sinnamon:

Enterprise Ireland would be very happy to engage with Members of the Houses in order to understand any specific issues, but we are very actively involved in supporting start-up companies. It is one of the key areas in terms of supporting new companies. Also, through programmes like new frontiers we supported about 165 new entrepreneurs last year. This was not just through Enterprise Ireland, it was also through the local enterprise offices. We are very happy to engage with anybody who can help us to achieve our objectives of supporting more start-up companies and to help our existing portfolio to scale in global markets. We are very happy to engage in whatever way the Deputy thinks would be useful.