Ms Nóirín Ní Earcáin:

The national enterprise hub is an effort to bring together all the different supports available to businesses that are offered by various State agencies, for example, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, Bord Bia and Tourism Ireland, all on one website. It is a comprehensive effort. It is led by Enterprise Ireland, working with the Department of enterprise. It is not in our division; it is in a different division of the Department. It will be launched officially on 10 July, but the website is live and the link is available to the committee.

The idea is that this website will be a signpost. It has short, clear information and will point enterprises onwards to the right places to find the supports that are suitable to them. In addition, there is a staff of six to seven people who are available on the phone and a webchat to help. As we have said before, sometimes having a human is helpful in the age of chatbots, especially for smaller and micro-enterprises, to point them in the right direction and to the appropriate person for the assistance they need.

As Ms Carberry also mentioned, there are other supports available, including the Grow Digital portal, which is in the final stages, and the climate for digital toolkit. I am not sure if that is the right name but the toolkit helps businesses to address decarbonisation. Those websites will be linked to the national enterprise hub. It is a one-stop-shop where all the relevant supports can be found.