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

Ms Alexa Toomey:

On SEAI specifically, we work really closely with them. The team there managing business supports would meet regularly with ourselves. In Enterprise Ireland we have long-standing relationships with our clients. We look at all aspects of their business. SEAI is specifically looking at their energy use and energy spend. How it works in practice is that we engage with the teams in businesses. We obviously have our own supports. A lot of those are around building capability, building knowledge, building awareness, training teams and that side of things. When it gets into the capital supports we have our own, which are focused on decarbonisation within the factory. SEAI can also help with that, but it helps with things like solar panels and micro generation on site. It can go a little broader than we can in some ways. It can help with car connections and those kinds of things. We work very much hand in glove. From a client point of view we want to make sure they have a good experience of working with two agencies, and do our best to make it easy and clear for a company.