Jenny Melia

Yeah, so there's a couple of things there, Joe.

I suppose the first thing to land on in terms of what the clients told us through the survey, and it's very positive, and that's that 97% of them expect to expand into new markets.

To support this expansion into global markets, we have brought 140 of our market advisers

from our 42 overseas offices to Dublin this week to meet with 700 of our exporting companies.

So we expect to see about 2,000 face-to-face meetings taking place this week.

And when I look at the export figures, I guess three things that I think really stand out for me this year

And actually all three firsts when I look at them.

So the first is the total level of exports from the Enterprise Ireland client base last year stood at a record 36.75 billion.

So we've come into this year on a very strong base.

The second thing is the strength of the single market that grew strongly.

We saw a very impressive 12.7 billion achieved in export sales.

And that's actually the first time now.

that the single market has overtaken the business that we're doing in the UK.

So that's a big first for us.

But even in the UK, we saw the UK grow to reach just over 10.5 billion.

And again, we've another first there because that's actually the first time we have broken or gone beyond that 10 billion mark.

export milestone to the UK.

So when you look at how that success translates on the ground here at home, we have almost 235,000 people now employed right across the country, across our client base.

And those companies last year pumped 42.6 billion into the local economy.

Yeah, so we've about 900 of our clients, Joe, sell into the UK.