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

-----we brought in tax warehousing and we also have a new grant which businesses will receive in the next couple of months. The sad reality is that there are a number of businesses in the State which have only got by in the past couple of years because of that State support and some of those are not viable. That is a sad truth but one no Government can simply subsidise forever.

On the story the Deputy tells about somebody emigrating to set up their lives abroad, of course that happens. It happens all the time for all sorts of different reasons. Let us not forget that in each of the past seven years, the number of Irish citizens leaving has been less than the number of Irish citizens returning or has been roughly the same. There is this narrative that huge numbers of Irish people are abandoning the country for better lives abroad, but the truth is different.

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