Dáil debates

Wednesday, 6 December 2006

Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax

 

8:00 pm

Photo of Donie CassidyDonie Cassidy (Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the initiative in the budget looking to help the small business industry, and in particular the business expansion seed capital scheme. The work and recommendations of the Small Business Forum will stand to this country over the next five, ten or 15 years. If we look past 2013, we will have to look to small Irish-owned businesses that today number 250,000, employing over 800,000 people, as we were told by the Minister.

This budget has considered the area very seriously. As Deputy Hogan and many Deputies on this side of the House have done, I welcome the initiatives taken on board by the Minister, particularly the suggestions heard by the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise and Small Business. Many of the initiatives are very worthwhile and I look forward to their implementation.

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