Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think you are right, Chairman. I see this across the board and across schemes. I do not blame businesses. They are struggling with Covid, a serious recession, and the fact that we had so many periods where people were marched to the top of the hill or brought to the edge of the cliff and Brexit did not happen. I am a little worried that some businesses may think that we will agree a free trade agreement, FTA, in the next few weeks and things will be like they always have been. They will not even if there is an FTA. Things will change. I have written to all 250,000 registered businesses in the country, setting out on two pages what they need to do and what help is available. We will run newspaper advertisements and television advertisements in the next week. I am getting worried that Brexit is only six weeks away and there are still a good chunk of companies that trade with Britain and think it is Y2K or will go away, when it will not.