Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion

Mr. John Magee:

LNo, we are not seeing any significant regional divergence in regard to this particular support and we find that it is broadly consistent. We have an LEO network meeting and we bring all of the heads of enterprise together. We are hearing a very consistent message being fed back to us right now that businesses, small businesses in particular, are starting on a sustainability journey, starting to understand the associated potential and starting to identify the economic and commercial opportunities. They are becoming more and more attuned to the need to reduce input costs, as the Senator said, and energy costs are currently a huge challenge. Nonetheless, it is a broadly consistent story across the country in regard to our rolling out of this particular programme.