Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Strengthening the Start-up Community: Discussion
2:50 pm
Mr. Sean O'Sullivan:
As long as it is creating jobs it does not make any difference. I think that is terrific. My mom worked for Catholic charities and she created 3,000 jobs. It was unbelievable. She was a single mother raising nine children, and she created the Home Help Aids network in upstate New York, which served millions of hours of services for people stuck at home. That is a great social enterprise. We should try to get people who are sitting at home and not working to do something that will help benefit this society in any way. There is tremendous wastefulness in this country. Some 14% of our brothers and sisters are sitting at home not working. That is a tragedy and we need to try to accommodate ways that they can be productive members of society. That improves our gross national product but it also improves our gross national well-being and psycho-social state.
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