Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion
Mr. Joe Lowe:
The LEOs are very well placed. Up to ten years ago, we had the county enterprise boards and, in certain counties, we developed a very strong relationship with our clients. There is a certain element of trust in the engagement with our clients and they are then inclined to come to training programmes, take advice on capital expenditure and so on. The LEOs are very well placed to roll out these types of programmes. We are very much aware of the needs of our clients on a county basis. It is a timing process. We had the same experience with the trading online vouchers given that, when we started off, it took a long time to get companies to engage. Now, invariably, we are issuing thousands of them every single year. This trajectory might be on the same line. We are very well placed to do that. We have the confidence of the micro-enterprise sector and I think we are in a good position to roll out programmes such as this.
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