Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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I was in County Donegal a week ago and met representatives of a manufacturing company that had carried out an Enterprise Ireland lean manufacturing programme. While the company was going to the next level of that programme, it found it far too cumbersome to engage with Enterprise Ireland in the delivery thereof and sourced it itself, albeit in a much scaled-down version, because obviously the company lacked the funds to provide for a full-scale on-site consultant itself. While this was the experience of that company, from my perspective it would not be unusual. I make the point that this is happening at the same time as the reduction of funds for Enterprise Ireland.