Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has been found wanting and with the Government imposing a turnover limit on companies, the European Commission has found that it wrongly excluded SMEs from competing, for example, for the Eircom contract. Businesses are arguing that many of them cannot tender for the work; large companies are tendering but the actual work is contracted out afterwards. That the Government has not carried out a comprehensive analysis on the companies that were there before it came to office but which are no longer there is a failure to inform the debate.

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