Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

I am clear that it is a significant core priority of mine in the future, as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, because I want to keep Ireland competitive. I want to keep us where we are currently vis-À-vis the European Union 25 in terms of entrepreneurial activity and the number of start-ups in this country. I stand to be corrected, but I believe we came second to Poland last year. There has been a change in mindset in entrepreneurialism in Ireland for some time and we want to keep it that way.

There is a significant train coming down the track in terms of EU directives from Brussels and we need to be clever in our transposition of those directives.

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