Shane Moynihan (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)

Cuirim failte roimh an dul chun cinn atá á dhéanamh i leith saorthrádáil timpeall an domhain. Key to any free trade and any strong trading relationships is a strong, export-led economy driven by our indigenous firms. While the budget made some moves in increasing the attractiveness of entrepreneurship and developing an entrepreneurial economy, could other issues be considered such as setting up a number of metrics around how we measure the number of employees employed by indigenous SMEs and the proportion of corporation tax those companies pay? Can some funding be allocated or thought given to schemes designed to mentor new entrepreneurs from existing proven entrepreneurs who have been successful in this field? For those companies that we want to scale up and keep in Ireland can the Government make it easier for employee-share options to be made available in those companies to ensure everybody has bought into the success of those companies and that they are allowed to scale up?

We need to scale up our indigenous industry and I encourage the Taoiseach to consider that too.

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