Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-07
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Yes. Taxi drivers as a group are excluded from nearly all of these supports for reasons I do not understand. I asked some of the taxi drivers to explain it to me. I am told their exclusion is related to them not paying or charging VAT. I did not fully understand the explanation but I know they are excluded from many of the support schemes for small enterprise.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-07