Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion

Mr. Tim Griffiths:

I will start on the point around collaboration. There are definitely opportunities to do that. We are in existence for 20 years and more than 600 social entrepreneurs have gone through our doors. We run various programmes throughout the course of the year and the people involved work in different areas. We might be supporting in one programme somebody addressing mental health, somebody else doing diversity and inclusion and somebody else doing the environment. We find they have shared challenges, even though they operate in different areas, whether around governance, HR matters, marketing or whatever support it is they need. In the working groups of the programmes and in our broader community, there is a shared mentality. There is a lot that happens there but there is space for a lot more. There is a difference between the strategic things and the micro things that happen day to day.

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