David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in and for the presentation. I notice seven priority enterprise policy objectives listed. The White Paper talks about how digital helps productivity and yet the number of firms that are prepared and have a digital plan is very low. To increase productivity by 2.5%, we need to have a lot of firms involved in digital.

We need to have a lot of firms involved in digital. I think there is a target of 90% of Irish SMEs needing to be digital by 2030. A huge number of firms, especially the smaller firms, do not have that on their radar at all. Please comment on that. How important is digitalisation? What can be done to remedy the situation? What is the Department doing?