Ms Mary Rose Burke:

On the makeup of the chambers, it is one of the strengths of Dublin Chamber, in particular, that our members are drawn from all sectors across the greater Dublin area. We run over 100 events per year. Members attend for thought leadership, to learn from each other and to network with each other. We also run formal training programmes and all sorts of things. The business of business is business regardless of the size of it. We see a huge cross-fertilisation of ideas; businesses trade and provide services and goods to each other. That communication is quite dynamic within the business community. The issues we bring to the committee are not from any one sector. They are the ones that the businesses have collectively put into a hierarchy in terms of the most important ones. Individual businesses will of course have other specific issues but these are the ones that rose to the top and the business community agreed to prioritise.