Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The FBN has a seat on the Enterprise Forum, which is run by my Department. I engage with the network regularly. Only yesterday its representatives attended our consultation on the enterprise policy and made some very good points on family businesses. On the LEEF, we have tried to keep it quite small. I think there are 20 or 30 organisations that have requested a seat on the LEEF. It becomes a different body if we expand it to a dozen or so organisations. At the moment it is very tight. It is the forum at which we have tripartite discussions involving ICTU as representative of the unions - as the individual unions are not on it - and IBEC representing business. Again, individual business groups are not on it, though Chambers Ireland is. Then there is the Government. That is the model. It is a tripartite model, which I am conscious the Deputy knows all about.