David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I have two more brief questions. Is Dr. Bambrick saying, then, that she expects quite a lot of businesses to go out of business in the short to medium term because of the other pressures and because their business model, as she says, is not sustainable? This may be through no one’s fault other than that maybe the business is not working and is not viable anymore. That is the first question.

Is the percentage of workers who are on the minimum wage over the years going up or down? Has it improved or disimproved overall? This is bearing in mind that we did say that quite a number of people on the minimum wage are part time, temporary etc.?