Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister again for his detailed reply. It is important, as well, to emphasise at this stage that this applies to both manufacturing and the service sectors. Every opportunity needs to be availed of to ensure that opportunities which can arise, and which could be helped to arise, in both of those sectors need to be encouraged at the same time and well in advance of any other trends we have been warned about from time to time. This is in order to provide the necessary confidence in the economy to continue to roll with the waves, as it were, and to withstand any pressure from any quarter. This is also to recognise that we have sufficiently strong export industries here which can continue to supply. We should ensure that we do not damage them in any way or impede them in their progress to do what they can do well.

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