Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you for attending, Mr. Fielding. I know October is a bad month for you to come to the committee. The Small Firms Association addressed the joint committee a few weeks to ago to discuss its pre-budget submission and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment. You might like to use this opportunity to add some comments on those issues to your presentation. We might have a chance to engage on those issues during the meeting.

An examination of the black economy and its effect on small businesses is on the joint committee's work programme for December and January . I hope you will be able to attend some of those meetings. I know the issue is close to the heart of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association.