Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Progress Update: Discussion with Microfinance Ireland

3:15 pm

Ms Geraldine Kelly:

If I could make a final comment on that as it is important for the committee to gain an appreciation of this, the team we have in place, in the office and on the board, is very committed to asking how it can make an impact in this area. It is important that we point out that, as everybody around here will be aware, it is a balance between the good business idea and the entrepreneur. It is that combination that makes the success. Certainly, because the team is passionate about being helpful to that entrepreneur, if for some reason it cannot be approved in its current format, the team would go the extra mile to suggest alternatives and other roads to go. That happens on a daily basis. That is difficult to pinpoint in the statistics because one does not know when that person will get that extra advice and come back in another format.