Gillian Toole (Meath East, Independent)

I thank Mr. Hennessy, Mr. Hammersley and Mr. Jacquinot, as our guests and for the materials provided in advance from the secretariat and their reports. Coming in at this stage, I will try not to duplicate.

We have a body of work to do. This meeting and last week's meeting have been highly informative for us as we move forward to try to influence the recently publicised strategy. Our input actions for that strategy are due to come forward before the end of the year. As I would see it, it is for us to take these guests' feedback and that of all of the other guests to see what are the missing pieces and factors in the information learned. It may require informing actions or changing actions going forward.

A good starting point, as Mr. Hennessy pointed out, is where there is better practice in other countries and that we can look to them. I have a couple of simple questions. Mr. Hennessy cited Chile, in South America, as one example, and the UK as well. I take on board the point he made about differences in local enterprise offices - good, bad and ugly perhaps. What would be Mr. Hennessy's suggestions, even if he had two or three off the cuff, for the local enterprise offices?