Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the opportunity to give the Minister this information. When I inquired about funding in a LEO office I visited yesterday, I was told that if the business is not based on exports then it is a non-runner. We need to know where we stand, and we must encourage everyone who sets up a business, whether they sell to their neighbour or to America. We must get it into people's heads that a job is a job and the enterprise offices should deal with everybody.

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