Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

-----that are hardly able to survive are being forced to pay the same rates as businesses that are very profitable. I ask the Government to meet the urgency of this case. Will the Minister develop a rates base that purely takes into consideration the profitability of the business concerned and the value of that business to society, be it an exporting business, a business with substitute imports or a business with a research and development capacity? There is a great deal of opportunity for the Minister's Government to incentivise the way business is structured in this society, and it is not good enough to say it will be reviewed.

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