Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for the overview. I acknowledge the support that will be available for online retail stores. However, many of these businesses serve customers locally and there is very little of an online nature to them. They deal with people one to one. It is good to have such services available and it is very important to get them up and running. The panel beater depends on his own skills but this includes his personal skills in winning over customers. It is similar with the beautician and hairdresser. It is the people on the ground that we need to support. We need to make capital funding available to them to get them set up and running. It should be remembered that, if they were larger-scale businesses, they would be able to access many other sources of funding. It is because they are smaller, with only four or five or even just one single person involved, that they are caught. If they were larger manufacturing businesses, the Minister would be satisfied to support them.

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