Darragh O'Brien (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

It is crucially important for the SME sector that it has certainty of pay and conditions. That is why I and my Government colleagues fully support the national pay deal. The announcement by Fine Gael at its national conference that it would scrap the national pay deal that was agreed after careful consideration by Government, employers including SMEs, and unions strikes me as a blatant example of the short-sightedness of Fine Gael and its ill thought-out economic policies.

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