Dr. Carol Gibbons:

The companies on the micro side are clients of the LEOs. There are 31 LEOs, and the budget for them comes through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ourselves. The domestic economy is quite strong still for those companies. The challenge ahead of us it to ensure that those companies remain competitive just as much as the base of Irish enterprise across the regions. From that perspective, one focus we have is to look at competitiveness and productivity measures in the context of the lean for micro programme. We try to ensure that digital is very much an aspect of those companies and that they are competitive in nature as they move forward. That is an area where we are doubling down for the client base in the regions and for the LEOs.