Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hope a considerable degree of listening to businesses is being done because if the Minister is listening to the same businesses as I am, he will hear about the severe pressure they are under. I accept those supports that have been mentioned. No business is going to turn up its nose at them but some of them are under severe pressure at this time. I thought a proposal had been made that there was going to be something beyond this and even more significant. I do not think we should get into the frame of comparing ourselves with Brexit Britain. Nobody is shocked that there has been a huge impact from what was a dreadful decision it made, although it has the right to do that and we are where we are. We just need to make sure viable businesses will be kept in play.

All the measures the Minister outlined are welcome, such as work the LEOs and the agencies do. I have seen the work that even the likes of the regional development centre in Dundalk does to pull together businesses and make sure they can go from strength to strength. We want to see all that, but we need to make sure businesses that are under pressure will be provided with the necessary supports.

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