Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue of these major public contracts in the context of our discussion of the numbers on the live register. All such contracts should include an incentive that would encourage the successful companies to take construction workers and others off the live register. We have seen in recent years how European-based companies tend to arrive here lock, stock and barrel, with little or no employment opportunities for local people. That is a source of frustration for the unemployed construction workers who have not yet left the country. I urge the Minister to raise this issue at the Cabinet.