Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It has contacted each of its 1,400 clients. That is what is needed, a bespoke response to the different clients. Enterprise Ireland has outlined its five pillars of support, namely, information and guidance, market diversification support, international sector clustering strategy, UK market support, and competitiveness and market development supports. There is significant potential to diversify and we will be working our way through that.

Obviously, Enterprise Ireland has been working with many of these companies for many years and it knows the strengths and weaknesses of the companies. As I stated already, the companies have different requirements and we will be trying to respond to that.

It would be foolish of me and the Department to announce something when we do not know what the companies want. We do not know their needs exactly. That is being worked on. We will probably have that response in a fortnight. The sectoral bodies, the Small Firms Association, IBEC and ISME, have all bought into this and they know that this needs to be done in order that we can give a proper targeted response.

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