This Directive is an important legal development and businesses will be able to learn more about the new legal rights it confers, as well as to ask questions and to discuss issues relevant to them. Speakers at the seminar will include:

• Richard Bruton TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
• John Perry TD, Minister for Small Business and SME Envoy
• Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General
• Idaira Robayna Alfonso, Legal Officer, European Commission
• Mark Fielding, Chief Executive, Irish Small and Medium Enterprises (ISME)