Mr. Ian Talbot:

-----which is not mentioned on the list. We keep talking about the same things over and over again. Education was a big issue. We will be 100 years old tomorrow, in fact. It has been enlightening to look through the history of the organisation and see what we have been talking about. What I feel it comes back to is that the same stuff keeps recurring around things like insurance and all these things. They keep recurring. Let us take education, which we were talking about first. It was about giving boys and girls a primary school education. Now, we are talking about the best quality of primary, secondary and third-level education. It has moved on, but we are still talking about the same things.

The point I am getting to is that what small businesses really want are the small things done well so that they do not have to worry about them, for example, education, housing and infrastructure. They just want those things done well. Most businesses will get on with it if those core things are in place.

The Deputy is proposing an Irish enterprise agency. I will go another way. We all have infrastructures. As Mr. McKeever said, we are all time poor. We all have as good as it gets when it comes to experts in our fields. Everyone working in our business is a specialised expert. Everyone working in LEOs, for example, does not necessarily have that background and expertise. There is an opportunity for the State to look more closely at helping us run our business better and co-operate with us. If the LEOs have extra money to spend, for example, and particularly as they are looking at moving from ten to 40 or ten to 50 employees, they could focus on export companies. Companies need to import stuff. They need to import components to create the things to export, for example. They meet both ways. Let LEOs, Enterprise Ireland and such organisations help. I know they work with us already but let them look to help us more to help our companies around the country. We are representing all those companies that actually want to make a difference. We all have joiners and leavers. There is probably a lot of overlap in our members. There are people who say they want to see things done and want to contribute to policy. They are the engaged people. Let us, therefore, use our organisations as well-----