Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister is aware, there are particular challenges facing business and commerce in the Border region due to Brexit. We need a particular focus by the State's industrial promotion agencies on assisting companies to maintain and, hopefully, to grow employment. There is a particular need to assist those companies to remain competitive. Many of the companies in the Border region, mainly small and medium enterprises, depend on the sterling area to which they export their products and currency fluctuations cause them particular problems. There is a need for the Government to introduce, as was done in 2009, particular measures to assist companies that are impacted by currency fluctuations.

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