Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Discussion

4:00 pm

Photo of Maurice QuinlivanMaurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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In the agreement there is no specific chapter on small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, and that is a concern I would have. Many of our exporters are smaller SMEs, and they would be competing with massive companies coming the other way. That is a concern I would have, that there is no specific chapter to support SMEs.