Mr. John Magee:

I will address the point around mentoring. We had an initiative locally, Mentor Mayo, where we took very experienced business people across a range of sectors and brought them into the ecosystem to augment our paid mentors - this was a voluntary mentoring programme. It was very instructive in terms of getting that intergenerational piece, with the older businesses mentoring the newer ones that are coming through.

We are working very hard throughout the country on the awareness-raising piece of having those conversations. To an extent, we share the frustration around this. We would love there to be more take-up of the Green for Business programme and our energy efficiency grant. With regard to the pipeline for the energy efficiency grant, some 150 companies have started the process of applying for that grant throughout the country and we are pushing that daily and having those conversations.

We concur that we want our microbusiness community to play their role and to grasp-----