PRESS RELEASE: Rebooting the Irish Economy starts with SMEs
27/04/2020 Thousands of Irish businesses have been starved of cash for almost two months. Ireland has an examinership regime that is too expensive and slow for SMEs. ISME is calling on the Oireachtas to prioritise legislation to allow as many...
PR: SMEs need a better lifeboat.
PRESS RELEASE: SMEs need a better lifeboat. 09/04/20 Ireland’s examinership process is too expensive and cumbersome for most small businesses. SMEs need a simpler, administrative form of examinership available to them. As Covid-19 shutters many businesses, ISME believes that now is...
PR: Liquidity solution still awaited for SME survival
PRESS RELEASE 25/03/20 ISME welcomes the improvements in the COVID-19 Income Support Scheme. ISME notes that without aggressive action to introduce liquidity into the market, workers availing of the support will have no jobs to return to in a matter...
PR: SME Liquidity
19/03/20 ISME believes the Government needs to take a far more aggressive approach to maintain the liquidity of small business Covid19 has caused a societal crisis of confidence in the ability to spend, by consumers and employers. This crisis of...
PR: ISME announce partnership with the Health and Safety Authority for their 2020 Roadshows
09/03/2020 Health and Safety focus for SMEs during 2020 Roadshows The HSA will be providing demons and advice at selected ISME Roadshows The next ISME Roadshow featuring the HSA will take place in the Midleton Park Hotel, Midleton, Co. Cork...
PR Q4 2019: Bank Watch Report
02/03/20 SME demand for credit is at 24%. Loan refusal rates decrease from 58% to 19%, with 44% being partially successful. 17% waiting longer than 4 weeks from permission to drawdown. 69% stated that banks are making it more difficult...
ISME welcomes the OECD’s publication of its Economic Survey of Ireland 2020
PRESS RELEASE: 14/02/20 This publication could not be better timed, coming as it does in the middle of attempts to form the next government by the three largest parties. The Survey is not alone essential reading for our political parties; it...
Deafening silence from the bench on spurious claims
The withdrawal of a motor insurance claim against the MIBI by a claimant following production of video evidence presented Mr Justice Kevin Cross with a golden opportunity to address the cancer of bogus claims infecting our society. Justice Cross chose...
Launch of the ISME ‘Fair Book of Quantum’
ISME launched its ‘Fair Book of Quantum’ on Thursday 23rd January The current level of general damages for soft-tissue (‘whiplash’) injuries in Ireland is 4.4 times to that of England and Wales The Personal Injuries Commission sought an ‘urgent’ reduction...
14 – 20 December
ISME featured in the media SATURDAY The Irish Examiner, 14/12/19 Ireland to benefit from Johnson's majority amid 'topsy turvy' Brexit risk Irish business leaders and analysts have hailed the prospects for the UK approving the withdrawal agreement next month but...
