Required reading for @Paschald @LeoVaradkar @MichealMartinTD @mmcgrathtd @IRLDeptFinance @IRLDeptPER and @EnterInnov

Your senior civil servants convinced you that 'Proprietary Directors' have yachts and private jets. https://twitter.com/idahocafe/status/1288937482038501376

They don't.

They make coffee and sandwiches, sweep floors and clean toilets.

They often take home less income than their own employees.

#inittogether

@SMERecoveryIrl @peterodwyer1

If they expand and employ 50-100 in your constituency, you might come and cut the ribbon on a new premises.

But most toil away their adult lives employing less than 10 people

#inittogether

Because none of you, and none of your civil servants have ever been self employed, you don't understand this.

@RevenueIE tells you it's OK to discriminate against them in tax because they 'fiddle their expenses'

#inittogether

Rather than listening to ISME, you expect us to be cheerleaders for Government policy we've said won't work for four months.

We wouldn't be doing our job if we said you were doing a good job

Business owners understand that money is tight, because that's the way they live.

Yet while cutting the EWSS from small business owners, we can find €260m for a pay RAISE for the best paid, most sheltered sector in society.

#inittogether

If you do value the job makers, the wealth creators and the startup founders of the country, please restore the EWSS to proprietary directors immediately.

A small gesture if we really are #inittogether

https://isme.ie/pr-isme-pre-budget-submission/

@peterodwyer1