Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Impact of Covid-19: SME Recovery

Mr. Derek Butler:

I will address the Deputy's first point. It is absolutely clear that we will not have a recovery if we have a public health crisis. Everyone in the small and medium-sized enterprise community really buys into that. In recent weeks and months, we have seen the SME community buying into a new social contract under which everyone gets behind our collective public health. Almost every small business in the country was closed with the exception of some essential businesses. We are now seeing the public health crisis recede. We have a collective responsibility to ensure the public health crisis continues to recede. We are all clear that if it does not, the recovery of the economy and a decrease in the unemployment rate will not happen.

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