Enterprise a winner, says Martin

Minister for Enterprise Micheal Martin is in the unusual position of getting everything he wanted from the budget last Wednesday.

Martin said he was thrilled that the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, had delivered ‘‘100 per cent’’ of the measures he had sought to help employment in Ireland.

Many of the changes in the budget reflected recommendations in the report of the Small Business Forum earlier this year, according to Martin. ‘‘Brian Cowen has been very responsive to any issue I have brought to him on indigenous enterprise,” Martin said. ‘‘In the budget, ...