John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

The question is what we do now. In my view, small and medium enterprises, county enterprise boards and Enterprise Ireland are central to what we must do as we move into better times. To do that we must restore confidence within those companies. We must ensure credit is made available. It is no harm in the course of this debate, whether it comes from this side of the House or the other, to send a specific message to the banks and tell them they must look at themselves and how they make credit available.

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