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

The Deputy mentioned the number of staff we have in the Department. We have different committees right across government. While the United Kingdom may have a Brexit department, I assure the Deputy that we have committees right across all Departments, including mine, meeting the various sectoral interests and enterprises. We are covering off that really well.

Even yesterday, we launched the Enterprise Ireland eurozone strategy under which we will encourage and help businesses to break into markets outside the UK and to get involved not only in the eurozone market but also the US, Asia-Pacific and other emerging markets. The Deputy will have heard the recent announcements of companies setting up in Ireland and the jobs that will be created. Our unemployment rate has reduced to 6.2%. We are working hard and everybody in my Department is focused on Brexit during much of their day's work.

The Deputy also asked about an enterprise stabilisation fund. We are conducting analysis on this and we have actively listened to the needs of business.

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