Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process: Discussion
Ms Tara Keane:
It is difficult for us to collect the data because some of it is commercially sensitive. When you engage with a company, they do not necessarily want to wave the flag and say what their particular weakness or vulnerability is and why they have to enter a rescue process. The Department does excellent work with our retail and hospitality sectors through the enterprise forum, trying to get that anecdotal base around the challenges their membership and sectors are facing. That would then feed to us in company law and our policy responses. In company law, we try to tap into those forums within the Department to make sure our policy is informed by the challenges we hear they are facing on the ground. However, actually collating the data is difficult. I would love to hear ideas but I am not sure how we could do that without potentially having commercially sensitive-----
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