Many small businesses will be forced to close and cut jobs if the Government does not quickly launch the Covid Business Aid Scheme (CBAS), the Small Firms Association has warned.
Publication of the Report of the SME Taskforce: SME and Entrepreneurship Growth Plan
Minister of State Damien English TD and Minister of State Robert Troy TD have today welcomed the publication of the SME Taskforce’s, ‘SME and Entrepreneurship Growth Plan’.
The Growth Plan was developed by a taskforce of entrepreneurs, business leaders and other individuals as established under a commitment in the Programme for Government – ‘Our Shared Future’ and who are uniquely positioned to contribute to a long-term vision for the SME sector in Ireland.
The SME Taskforce’s Growth Plan sets out a wide range of recommendations for Government with long-term strategic relevance for SMEs and entrepreneurs, including in the areas of digitalisation, clustering, regulation and education. These recommendations will be reviewed and taken forward, as appropriate, by an SME and Entrepreneurship Implementation Group in early 2021.
Updated / Tuesday, 22 Dec 2020
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Retail Excellence wants clarification on the Government s plans for the deferral of Christmas sales
Business group Ibec said that the latest Covid restrictions, whilst devastating, were proportionate to the challenges which the country now faces.
Ibec s chief executive Danny McCoy said that many businesses will suffer further loss and distress as a result of the latest Covid restrictions.
But given the recent Covid developments internationally and developing on the island, the speed and intensity of the response was proportionate, Mr McCoy added. We will continue to work with Government to explore how supports to the worst impacted sectors can be extended and calibrated, the Ibec CEO said.