Though Ireland has traditionally been lauded as a country that fosters small enterprises, it must now be asked, are these very businesses becoming an endangered species? Against a backdrop of ever rising business charges the future of small businesses across Ireland is being subjected to ‘death by a thousand costs’. Now, more than ever, I firmly believe that scale is a critical ingredient for the viability of SMEs and that the government is unnecessarily burdening businesses with a cost base which will, at a minimum, profoundly and negatively impact their growth potential. The current government has committed to introducing a…

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