Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Absolutely. That is why we have the Grow Digital portal, which we are trying to encourage people to use to access the sustainability portal and the digitalisation one which will essentially carry out an audit of their whole businesses. It will then come forward with the supports that are required. We specifically set up the national enterprise hub, which has 250 supports across 29 Departments and Government agencies, with an operator at the end of the phone. I know businesses' most valued resource is their time so we want to get back to them within 24 hours and advise them as to the key areas they should be focusing on. There are a number of grants for both digitalisation and sustainability because both are two key areas that can lower the cost base or bring in additional revenue for firms. As I said, when we renegotiate the service level agreement with our local enterprise offices, that will give us an opportunity to make things a little easier for businesses as well.