John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not think it is okay, actually. That meeting was agreed. It is typical of Departments, when they come before us, to say they will do something and then go away and not do it. It is simply unacceptable, when one is dealing with people who are in business and who take risks every day to help the economy through their taxes and everything else, that they are ignored like this. I find it unacceptable. I ask the clerk that, before the end of business today, we have a date set for that meeting and that the members be informed as we requested.

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