Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, and I look forward to working with the Local Development Companies Network, which has just rebranded. This will be a key area of focus. The Deputy touched on the issue of management capability.

People have really good ideas but, unfortunately, the execution of this can often be a challenge and can often intimidate people from taking the step. I certainly want to work in that space but also in my role as Minister for Social Protection on the back to enterprise scheme to address those issues and give people the backup and scaffolding that is needed to take the jump and move from an idea to implementation, be that a social enterprise or under the back to enterprise scheme. I would like to work on this in cohesion between the Departments of Rural and Community Development and Social Protection as far as possible.

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