Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Our job as a Government is to try to provide as business-friendly an environment for SMEs to grow and expand as possible. By and large, that is working well. SMEs are growing, expanding and employing many more people now than they were last year, the year before or the year before that. Things are moving in the right direction. On the specific question on a procurement ombudsman, I will ask the Minister to come back to the Deputy directly.

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