Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are taking them seriously. As I said, there is sufficient scope and flexibility to ensure we will have as broad a range of alternative financing arrangements for SMEs as possible. We are taking this issue seriously, but we do not want to go down the road of specifically identifying in primary legislation different sectors because that could tie our hands in terms of the extent and breadth of any scheme introduced. I suggest the Bill is sufficiently broad to cater for the objectives of the amendment.