‘SMEs to create 20,000 jobs’

Small businesses in Ireland will generate 20,000 jobs in 2013 with the right environment, the chairman of the Small Firms’ Association, AJ Noonan predicts.

In his end-of-year statement, Mr Noonan said: “Ireland’s small business sector is deeply embedded in the Irish economy; it is now time to put jobs and small business at the centre of everything.

“With the right environment small businesses in Ireland will generate 20,000 jobs in 2013.