Debate contribution: Good Jobs
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
- Good Jobs
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4744770
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It certainly increases the challenge. The difficulty is that that was introduced with no compensatory measures to support small businesses. It was, basically, introduced as a quick fix in one area without, in our view, any consideration of a region such as this in particular, where small and medium enterprises employ about 90% of our working population. There was no real consideration of the consequences or impact of that, and there was no alternative support to assist businesses to grow. We have heard from quite a number of small businesses that that will be a challenge. I hope that it is one that they can meet. I hope that the arguments about mitigation and other supports land with the Government in the time ahead and that we get that support, but there is no doubt that it will be a challenge.
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