Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Does that mean, for example, that a business will qualify if it is restructuring its arrangements with a local authority for a repayment scheme, as many have done in recent years because of the difficulties they may have experienced in trading through Covid and so on? If they are in an arrangement with a local authority for a repayment scheme, I assume they will qualify for that support. The last thing we want is difficulty being loaded upon difficulty for businesses at the moment for reasons that we all understand. I presume that the local enterprise office will have an input as well into the rolling out of these schemes. They are the organisations on the ground linked to the local authority and they will best understand the SME landscape in various areas.

I welcome the scheme, which is an important one, especially in the light of the additional costs that businesses are experiencing, principally around energy as well.

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