About SME Recovery Ireland
SME Recovery Ireland is a platform representing Ireland’s small and medium business sector to ensure that policy response to Covid-19 is designed to succeed for SMEs. The small business sector has and will continue to be disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 crisis. Small businesses provide most employment in Ireland and are critical to our social fabric. Small businesses were under-capitalised before the crisis and so lack the financial resilience to survive the force majeure crisis they are facing. Every small business owner is in need of hope and a Government plan to help them restart their business.
We have set out a series of policies and interventions that will help a broad population of SMEs with a focus on sustaining the recovery and building SME resilience. The policy interventions that we are advocating for will go a long way to stabilise and recapitalise the small business sector so that employment and economic activity can be restored.
The initiative is chaired by John Moran, former secretary general of the Department of Finance.
Steering group
John Moran
Chairman
Derek Foley Butler
Founder and Coordinator
Ruth Andrews
Chairperson, ITIC
Lesley Tully
Board Member, Institute of Design Ireland (IDI)
Sarah Murphy
Managing Director Business Post Live
Neil McDonnell
CEO ISME
Adrian Cummins
CEO RAI
Duncan Graham
CEO REI
Lucy Cronin
Managing Partner, Instinctif Partners
Kathryn Meghen
CEO, RIAI