Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Challenges Facing Small and Medium Enterprises: Discussion

Mr. Ian Talbot:

There is an EU-funded programme called the Enterprise Europe Network, EEN. That is intended to help smaller businesses to export and to trade. Other countries' EENs help their countries to trade with us. I fear that is heavily underutilised in Ireland. Enterprise Ireland runs the overall programme, Dublin and Cork chambers of commerce run parts of it but the LEOs run the rest of it. I am not sure how much activity there is in there. That is an example of where EU funding is readily available which we might be able to use better, to help more.