Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are in favour of supporting indigenous companies that are exporters. However, I caution against talk of high levels of exports in the context of jobs. There has been a decoupling of the connection between job levels and export levels in recent years. The two are not correlated as they were a number of years ago. Indigenous business is better for job creation, for taxation and for long-term sustainability. I suggest there should be a rebalancing in the Government's policies to ensure that indigenous business, the poor relation in business terms, is given the attention it deserves.

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