Paul Connaughton (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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The overriding concern, in terms of what the Department is trying to do in saving money for the taxpayer and so on, is that it must be balanced with what these companies can and cannot afford to do. I welcome the idea of a meeting but I would not like to find out here in 12 months time that another request for a meeting has been submitted and nothing has changed. Perhaps what should happen now is that the witnesses would be upfront, which they will be, and say that this is as far as the Department can go and the business owners can say this is as far as they can go because all we are doing is having a conversation every 12 months, and many of these small businesses are under great threat.

On the PeoplePoint system, will one of the witnesses give me some general background on that? What was the logic behind it, and where is it at now?