Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for raising this matter. I will have to ask the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, who has responsibility for work permits to come back to me and to the Deputy on this.

More broadly, this is a Government that wants to provide certainty to small and medium businesses on costs and to look to see how we can support small and medium businesses with the increased costs they have been encountering. It is our intention to try to bring forward some measures to assist with that in the next few weeks. I will look into this specific issue.

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