Debate contribution: Support for Small Businesses
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 20 January 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Support for Small Businesses
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4744730
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The Finance Minister will bring rates proposals to the Executive shortly, and I think that she intends to provide as much support as she can to the business community. When I was the Minister of Finance, we reduced the business rate by 18% because we recognised that it was a high burden. The vast bulk of our businesses are small and medium-sized enterprises, so that was a challenge to them. I will, of course, continue to work with Executive colleagues. We all have different responsibilities in relation to that. For example, the Department for Communities has responsibility for the high street, and TEO had the high street task force. We need to work together. Growing the economy is an Executive priority, and I expect all Executive colleagues to row in behind measures, plans and propositions that aim to support that.
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