Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

The Minister reminds me of an estate agent who tries to sell a famine cottage as a rustic residence with character. The Government's policies are hollow. They are merely tinkering around the edges. The cost of each additional person on social welfare is €20,000. I have given the Minister an example of a business with which the Department and the enterprise agencies are not engaging. Many business people who are in the same situation will read the text of today's debate and ask where the Department was when their businesses were teetering on the edge. If the agencies currently working in this area are carrying out these roles why have their remits not been broadened to include all businesses that are teetering on the edge?

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