Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Economic Impact of Brexit: Discussion (Resumed)

4:30 pm

Mr. Arnold Dillon:

As part of IBEC, we are trying to support companies by providing as much information as possible on what is happening. That is difficult, given the degree of uncertainty that exists. We are working with various agencies, for example, Enterprise Ireland and Bord Bia, but we are also embarking on an exercise that will seek to break down many of the Brexit issues, including sectoral specific ones, and a project that will seek to identify and support companies in examining their own businesses, identifying the risks and potential opportunities and consider how they might mitigate the risks. Various sectors are at difference levels of preparedness and various organisations have different levels of resources that they can invest in this regard. As an organisation, we are trying to embark on projects to support them in that work. We will be happy to feed that work back to this committee and the Dáil in due course.