Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. Deputy Cahill covered most of what I want to say.

Since the company came out of examinership, that company has been paid €700,000 for some of the contracts that were already done and where subcontractors were not paid. This is another issue. As Deputy Cahill said, when a person is owed €70,000 and gets €1,200, he or she has no hope of surviving in business. The law must be changed to support small companies employing ten or 12 people who go out and do a decent day's work and then get stung like this. It is disgraceful.

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