Ms Alexa Toomey:

I would not claim I have all the answers but I hope I have some. The Deputy has hit the nail on the head with the things she mentioned in terms of maybe a little fear as to where to start. I do not think any company ever wants a hint of something possibly appearing as greenwashing, so there can be a little fear.

What we are trying to do through webinars and training programmes is bust the myths around this. We are really appealing to companies to just get started with us. We are almost halfway through a webinar series that covers a whole range of topics around sustainability. Decarbonisation among SMEs is a big focus of it, but we are also looking at things such as climate action planning. How do you start? How do you begin to develop a plan? There is green finance. We are looking at environmental, social and corporate governance, ESG, the corporate sustainability reporting directive, CSRD, and all these different topics in one-hour webinars to try to get the topic started and to introduce our team and the offers we have. We are about halfway through that. There is a two-month webinar series. We will review them and see what topics may have been missed or need a little more coverage.

We have also been working on a sectoral basis because we think companies can sometimes learn well from their peers. It is a matter of bringing companies in a specific sector together to talk about the challenges they face that are particular to them.

We will partner with Skillnet to launch a sustainability capability-building programme with it. The whole objective of that programme is that, at the end of its six half-days, one ends up with a sustainability plan for one's business.

We are appealing, particularly to SMEs, to take that first step and develop their plan, and we will get behind them to implement their plan. For a lot of companies which may not have come as far as the company Mr. Clancy met last week, getting started is the big challenge.