Mr. Gary O'Meara:

During Covid, Enterprise Ireland introduced a support scheme. Along with senior officials in Enterprise Ireland and the Department I helped to design this scheme, so that we could get the supports to the members and we could support the centres and the companies within those centres to make sure they did not have to close down. It worked very well. Some €8.9 million was distributed within a matter of months in 2020 to all of those centres. We need more of this kind of joined-up thinking where CEAI and ourselves, the members, can collaborate and support Enterprise Ireland in getting this funding out.