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Seanad: Issues Facing Small and Medium Enterprises in Rural Towns: Motion (8 Oct 2013): Mary Ann O'Brien: ...Ó Murchú mentioned 98.5% of our businesses are small businesses with 650,000 people employed by them. Surely that is enough to focus our minds. When America gets a cold, we usually get the flu. All of us have been lucky enough to travel and look at the United States for years. The Minister has seen what the advent of the wonderful business, Walmart, has done to the United...

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