Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Finbarr Filan:

It is because the enterprise offices cannot talk to retail businesses. They do not deal with retail. The system is not there. An entity for small businesses is needed. We have one for FDI. IDA Ireland does a fantastic job. If we did not have IDA Ireland and FDI we would be having a totally different discussion about this country. Enterprise Ireland does a brilliant job with exporters and LEOs talk to small exporters or people who want to become exporters. I will go back to my previous answer to the other Deputy. The vast majority of SMEs are not exporters so LEOs cannot talk to them. We have no one to talk to. There are 150,000 businesses out there that have no one to talk to.

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