Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Mr. John Shine:

We will certainly be keen to ensure that professional advisers are aware of this legislation and will be sufficiently comfortable with it to suggest it as an option. Our sense anecdotally is that this is not necessarily the case at the moment and that many would not be particularly comfortable with the legislation. It is old, fragmented and not fit for purpose, and they are not likely to offer it as a feasible option. There is that professional adviser area. There is the network of enterprise supports we discussed with Deputy Bruton earlier in the context of the LEOs and Enterprise Ireland-----