Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Many issues and concerns have been raised. One of our concerns is the one raised by Deputy Nash, whereby this scheme seems not to deal with suppliers. Suppliers have been hit massively by this crisis and the fact that they appear to have been excluded from this is deeply disturbing for them. Many of them have been in contact with us about that. The other issue that has been raised is that this seems to be quite a complex scheme rather than a simple, straightforward grant scheme, which would be of benefit to the small businesses that have been struggling since March with no end in sight. I hope the Minister will consider the amendments.