Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the expansion of SMEs, will Mr. Hegarty chat to us briefly about what can be done to deliver improvements in terms of what needs to be undertaken to address the situation where we have SMEs that sell up rather than scale up? This is a problem. It is something I have been doing a fair amount of work on. What can be done by the State to encourage our SMEs to scale up and not just to sell up? They reach a certain point where they hit a ceiling, and then they sell up rather than expand. This seems to be happening quite a lot. I would welcome Mr. Hegarty's views on this aspect as well.