Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Development of Indigenous Irish Enterprise: Discussion

Mr. Leo Clancy:

I am also not sure we have the data on sea freight versus air freight in our client survey. We survey our clients in terms of their business costs and imports and exports, annually. That survey is ongoing. We can certainly take it on board and have a look at it. However, we are looking at the overall carbon footprint of our clients. That includes all of the emissions that go to the business. We will look at it in line with all aspects of the business. Overall, we have a target for carbon reduction for the businesses. That tends to be where our focus is. It is more sea based. Air freight, necessarily, would be limited to small numbers of suppliers with very high-value light goods. Our economy is more weighted towards food and heavy engineering on the Irish enterprise sector and, increasingly, services.