Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the context of the Action Plan for Jobs, one of the Minister's cries is that it is cross-departmental and represents a whole of Government approach. However, there are other issues around the lack of a proper child care system, the taxation of self-employed people, and generally supporting people to take time out of their personal lives to develop a business. What is the Department doing, under the Action Plan for Jobs infrastructure, to push other Departments, including the Department of Social Protection, to do what is necessary to encourage more female entrepreneurship? The Minister has used the phrase "disruptive reforms". He needs to blow a few reforms towards some of these Departments, particularly the Departments of Children and Youth Affairs and Social Protection, in regard to entrepreneurship generally but especially in regard to female entrepreneurship.

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