Mr. John Magee:

I thank the Senator for the questions. I will try to deal with them in the round, to an extent. I do not agree that the targets are low. It needs to be understood that our sustainability goes beyond what we do in terms of green for business and even the energy efficiency grants. There is, for example, the work we do in our student enterprise programme. We are doing a lot of work with second level students. We will all have a category at county level in relation to sustainability, baking that right into the culture piece. In terms of our national enterprise awards at local and national level, we have a sustainability focus on that. I am working at the moment on the Mayo business awards and we have a sustainability focus on that. There is a huge amount of awareness-raising work happening. LEOs are doing work on training and mentoring. We have lean supports, a lean programme and a digital for business programme. All these programmes, if you think about them, are actually about sustainability. At their core, they are about trying to find a way to be more efficient, reduce inputs and digitise processes. All of those help reduce emissions and play into the broader sustainability agenda.

The Senator mentioned our broadened remit this year on a pilot basis. Typically, we have worked with businesses of up to ten employees. We now have the opportunity to work with businesses of up to 50 employees. It is a subsection of the economy. Typically, it is for businesses which are not yet clients of Enterprise Ireland but are on an export or international journey. That is massively important in the context of national enterprise policy. Crucially, green for business is open to businesses throughout all sectors of the economy of up to 50 employees. We understand the value of engaging in door-to-door, hand-to-hand combat, working with businesses on an individual basis and convincing them we have a product that can help.