Call for enterprise policy improvement

The head of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) has called on Government to improve its enterprise policy, or risk missing out on a new generation of Irish plcs.

Addressing the ISE’s Irish Enterprise: Funding for Growth conference in Dublin, yesterday, the stock exchange’s chief executive, Deirdre Somers, said the current high level of start-up companies is not being matched by the number of firms growing into large-scale Irish companies.

Ms Somers said that more attention and support needs to be given to medium-sized companies and that the Government must try to help grow companies with an international reach, rather than just support entrepreneurship.