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For example, will tax breaks be on offer, so that an employer can provide ridacards, or reduced or subsidised public transport as part of employees' remuneration? What fiscal benefits will there be for an employer or an employee?
Instead, our aim has been to ensure that rural issues are reflected across the Executive's programmes and policies and that rural policy is mainstreamed.
It was a key theme in last year's programme for government. This year's programme for government carries that theme through and embeds it in the machinery of government.
I said last year that we would consider carefully how we could use the rates system to assist R and D-intensive companies that could benefit from further assistance.