Mr. Declan Hughes:

What we have seen over the last three to five years is a very clear focus from businesses on innovation. They have had to innovate to survive in terms of their products and services. I mentioned earlier in particular about the retail sector, for example, and the innovation it has had to go through, driven by Covid, in terms of how to provide new services, going online and how the logistics and transport sectors and others have worked with it.

Enterprise Ireland and the LEOs do provide a range of step-up services. The first one is the innovation vouchers. I think there was a bit of dip last year, but we have seen an increase again this year across all of those supports.