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

Enterprise Ireland has 1,400 client companies and it has contacted them. They have had face-to-face meetings. It is certainly not making it up. It is aware of what exactly is needed.

I will answer questions that I think need to be answered. It is important that the companies are lean, competitive, up to date and able to respond to the challenges and the competitiveness issues, such as oil prices and exchange rates. All of that happens, but then there are many factors within the control of the management team. That is what Enterprise Ireland is doing.

Enterprise Ireland is under my auspices, under my Ministry. We will ensure that happens. When we get this targeted response of companies, we will look at that and we will plan and see what we need to do. Certainly, I hope we will have a good, targeted response from the companies.

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