Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

That is not the vision or plan of this Government. We need to be enterprising.

Last week at a meeting I heard Enterprise Ireland say that in the past year it has had 70 high potential start-up companies on its books. If half a dozen of those go from high potential to reality, which I believe they will, those companies will create the jobs. It is happening. Irishmen and women are being enterprising and creative and we have set the conditions for that by setting up research grants and research and development tax systems to help those companies succeed.

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