Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Female Entrepreneurship, Women in Tech Industries, Skills Needs and Balanced Regional Development: (Resumed) Discussion

1:30 pm

Ms Colette Twomey:

We would hope to in the future. The situation with Australia is that we could not export directly to Australia, so we partnered with a small manufacturer there. We can send our black pudding spice out there and we have a small operation serving the expat community initially. We have only been in operation for 12 months. That was a type of pilot scheme for us and we hope to roll it out, and likewise in the United States. Hopefully, in the meantime, the legislation will be available so we will be able to export into the United States. With the new plant we are building in Clonakilty we will have the set up to be able to do that.