Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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Does the Minister of State have an opinion on the ability of businesses, particularly more established ones, to work with the local enterprise offices, LEOs? It is quite normal, as he well knows, for people in the start-up space to deal with the LEOs, but is not something a lot of businesses in the SME space consider once they have been up and running a number of years because they feel they will not get money. They may not, for other reasons, want to get involved in a long, arduous process of trying to access what might be small finance. We should try to cover that issue such that established businesses will be able to get back into the LEO system and get a response quickly.