John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael)

There is a scoping exercise going on with collaboration between Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland on identifying the capabilities of the 100 companies that applied for the programme. I believe it is a unique opportunity.

The second part of the Deputy's question concerned small companies mentoring with larger multinationals for business development. We are confident that many of the Irish multinationals are prepared to examine how best they can encourage HPSUs, high potential start-ups, and focus on growing business in supply chains.

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