Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Most of those jobs were in the export sector. Government support through the IDA-Enterprise Ireland is at the heart of development of this sector. I defy anyone to criticise the work of those agencies whose budgets have been protected. Even in this difficult time we have protected budgets to support enterprise, the value of which is reflected in the 25,000 net additional people at work in the private sector.

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