Michael Mulcahy (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)

The more the business community is undermined and talked down, the more confidence in it will be destroyed. All public services require a vibrant business community to sustain everything. Without healthy companies and people setting up their own businesses and working hard to increase wealth, there will not be revenue for anything. Given the position in which we find ourselves, there is a serious responsibility on all Opposition parties and not only the Government parties to take their obligations to the State seriously. They have fallen short on that responsibility thus far.

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