Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is the very point. These are two valuable comments from Deputies Howlin and Micheál Martin. I want to see an NESC that is appropriate for the future. I would like to hear their view on whether it would have the same kind of pillars or the same numbers. That is the purpose of the Secretary General meeting them tomorrow.

On the point Deputy Martin makes about small businesses, if one is to have an NESC which will be independent and has the capacity to give objective opinions in a changed situation where we face international pressures for a variety of reasons, having the exact same formula as before in terms of the sectors that were represented may not be entirely appropriate for the future. I will bear that in mind.

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