Mary White (Fianna Fail)

Why does the Minister for Social Protection want to transfer social welfare payments from the Department to employers when an employee is out of work for a month?

On Friday night, I attended the Irish exporters awards and the Irish Export Association is the body that nominated me to the Seanad. The Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, in an eloquent speech, said that Irish people by their very nature are entrepreneurial and creative; the evidence is that 1,000 Irish people per month are setting up businesses but they must go through the valley of death to survive. He said that with feeling for business and Joan Burton-----