Mr. Sean Collender:

Certainly, for the businesses that will take on a lot of people like that, yes. A number of our part-time staff are not so much transient but work a shorter number of hours per week. We want to keep the good ones on all the time. Those pressures exist but the problem with the minimum wage is it had a knock-on effect throughout the whole business.

The Senator also mentioned concern about the lack of investment in terms of debt. I mentioned it earlier; I have a real concern that the risk-reward ratio is out of kilter. It is not so much whether access to money is available, it is that people are struggling with the idea of making the jump to go into this when they see the struggle already. That is a big issue. If we are not investing, we are not growing.