Whatever happened to the Small Firms Association

I am a member of the Small Firms Association in Ireland. There web site is www.sfa.ie, but the email address of their director is patricia.callan@ibec.ie. Who is ibec.ie. IBEC is the Irish Business Employers Confederation of which the SFA is an offshoot. They share the same building.

The SFA is for businesses with up to 50 staff, IBEC would deal with the bigger businesses. Both organisations are great business organisations and I cannot fault their professionalism and the assistance they give to their members. It's just I now feel that the smaller business has become left behind and that the bigger businesses are more important than us.

Small business and big businesses have very different agendas. ISME the Irish Small and Medium sized Enterprises organisation does not have that compromise, but then but then it does not have the larger resources that IBEC can give to the SFA, but then does it need them?

So back to my original question, whatever happened to the S.F.A. Is it the same organisation I joined many years ago.