Ms Adrienne Murray:

There are a number of questions. Senator White raised an interesting point about the county enterprise boards and their interaction with different sectors, particularly services such as the local hairdresser mentioned by Senator White. There are certain sector exclusions for county enterprise boards in terms of grant funding and that would be governed by EU law and legislation. Traditionally, the county enterprise boards have had sector exclusions but that does not extend to the boards being enabled and willing to provide mentoring across all sectors. They have been extremely helpful to us. We are open to all sectors from the local beautician to the local service trades worker. In all cases, the county enterprise boards are providing mentoring and business training to all sector applicants to Microfinance Ireland regardless of the industry. It is a point about which people get confused. It will be clarified for the county enterprise boards as they evolve into the local enterprise offices. I think it has been referred to as the first-step shop for local enterprise that can provide a range of services, training, business support, mentoring, details of grant support for certain sectors-----