Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I believe these schemes are targeted. There are many different loan and grant schemes. It may be the case that they are not targeted particularly to the Gaeltacht but they are targeted to small businesses. Microenterprises, which the Deputy mentioned, and enterprises with fewer than ten employees can benefit from the Microfinance Ireland loans, and there has been a very good uptake of that. That is effectively an interest-free loan for the first year and a low interest rate thereafter. I would also encourage small businesses in the Gaeltacht that are trading with Britain to avail of the €9,000 grant which we are making available through Enterprise Ireland to enable them to either take somebody on to do customs, or, if they are very small and that is not what they need, to redeploy somebody in the business towards customs so that they are ready for trading with Britain on 1 January.

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