 My name is Deirdre Ford. I'm a councillor on Cork County Council in the Munster Region in Southern Ireland and I'm a member of the European People's Party on the Committee of the Regents. My opinion is the single market programme and I'm really delighted to speak on this opinion because I believe it's critical to the whole of Europe. It is the greatest success story for Europe. It has delivered thousands of jobs for businesses and it has allowed people goods, services and money move freely within the whole 27 EU countries as if they were one single country. We have the local enterprise offices which disseminate information and it allows business to be directly involved if they have an issue to do with accessing funding, accessing mentoring, accessing other businesses either from other parts of Ireland or across the EU and they will continue to support them as they try and grow their business.