Peter Burke

Many organisations are trying to get their speak in, they've made their pre-budget submissions and there's nothing sure.

Businesses and particularly small businesses need a lot of support in terms of staying viable, in terms of growth and still being here in a year's time because it has been a challenging period and that continues I know Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Bourke has said it won't be a very enterprise-focused budget per se, that maybe one in every six or seven budgets generally is enterprise-focused.

They will point to a lot of work that has been done over the past year.

But what does that mean for the very small businesses around our country? Well, the Small Firms Association says rising wages, employer PRSI, energy bills and regulatory requirements are putting increasing pressure on businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

I think we did have you two on the music side of one early on.

In fairness, look, just a shout out to Minister Peter Bourke on, look, he was the man behind it and his department, obviously, and it's great to have someone with that sort of power in the Midlands, you know, and there were some Midlands companies on it.

So just, it was a bit like, You know, you've got the parents and the kids, and the kids are sort of running down by the river, and the parents are going, like,

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