Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not understand the question.

I hear all the time from small businesses about their impression we are gold-plating EU directives in Ireland and putting more in than we need to when we should not be. We absolutely have to understand the directives are there and where they can be helpful we should use them. In many instances, we have to use them but we should not be putting anything more onerous on businesses in terms of regulation than we have to. The less regulation, the better in many areas that small businesses are working in. They are small operations with flat management structures, as the Chairman pointed out, and the more regulation, red tape and costs they have, the more difficult it is for them to do business. We need to be careful we get the balance right.

On the Leader issue and the biscuits, if they were spending more than €5,000 on biscuits they would have to start looking for quotes elsewhere. I do not know what biscuits they are buying.