Mr. Denis Dolan:

First, with regard to what Deputy Ray Butler said earlier, a mirror image of what happens in the UK seems to me to be a logical starting point. Second, in our submission, we also make the point that those in the Self Employed Alliance Dundalk are predominantly in businesses where one individual is perhaps employing three to five people. These are minuscule or micro enterprises and it is wrong to be bundled, as we are, into the Central Statistics Office's category of "1-50", when the dynamics are so significantly different. The three of us sitting here are at the minuscule or micro level - call us what one likes. We are one individual, one owner or one self-employed person. To mirror the 0.25% increase in order to recognise this point would be a contribution to enable us to get those supports should things go pear-shaped.