Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge the additional supports provided this week to the 225,000 businesses that are the backbone of our economy. They generate employment and tax revenue, on which the provision of State services is based. In particular, I thank the Tánaiste for the business resumption support scheme, BRSS, which I hope will capture the small number of businesses that have been left out of the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, or the Tánaiste's own scheme for technical reasons. The BRSS is designed in part to support those businesses. While that is fantastic, I urge that they be given additional weight when accessing its funding. I am thinking in particular of catering companies, which have fallen between two stools. I thank the Tánaiste for all his work on the BRSS.

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