Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost in Budget 2025 if the budget for the "Go Global 4 Growth Training Programme" was doubled. [36678/24]

Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Enterprise Ireland's Go Global for Growth programme is aimed at companies that are looking to adapt and evolve their businesses to prepare for global growth. It provides training to senior leadership teams to enable them to work collaboratively on the creation of international growth action plans for their companies.

The cost of doubling annual expenditure on Go Global for Growth training programme would be approximately €500,000.

The Go Global for Growth programme will, however, conclude this year. It will be replaced by an updated and enhanced training programme, also to be delivered by Enterprise Ireland.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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253. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding for the digital start initiative to deliver funding to the value of five days of consultancy for firms instead of four days. [36827/24]

Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Government has brought forward a substantial range of measures to reduce costs and enhance support for small businesses. This includes changes to the Local Enterprise Office digitalisation schemes.

Digital Start was first introduced in 2022 and is now called Digital for Business. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the eligibility criteria for the Digital for Business consultancy scheme has been widened to make businesses with up to 50 employees eligible for the scheme, regardless of sector. Digital for Business is designed to help businesses prepare and implement a plan for the adoption of digital tools and techniques across the business. It provides strategic intervention for businesses to work with third party consultants for up to 3 days to:

• assist them in identifying where they are on their digital business journey,
• develop a digital adaptation plan based on their identified need,
• implement their digital adaptation plan