Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland
Dr. Carol Gibbons:
The North of Ireland and mainland UK would be the primary focus market for the micro and small industry. We are seeing that is holding up quite strongly. There is much North-South collaboration as well with state agencies in the North and that gives us a pulse of business in the North as well. Trade is growing. We are seeing no difficulty at the moment with respect to that. That would be, as Mr. Clancy mentioned, the first port of call for many businesses as they look to export markets. We work hand in hand with the local enterprise offices in that regard for the micro industry as they step out and increase their trade to the UK. At the moment, I am not seeing any decline in that trade across the sectors as I speak today.
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