Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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I acknowledge Mr. Clegg's commitment to all this, but we had all this for 25 years, virtually. We had the local employment charter, which the docklands authority ran a coach and four through. The developers brought in people from outside, who rented houses in the area, and pretended it was local employment. The local employment services were in operation for the last 20 years as well and did not deliver the jobs. Can we ensure in some way that the new structures that are put in place have teeth, so that they deliver on the jobs, apprenticeships, education and commitment? In the original vision there was a statutory requirement by the Docklands Development Authority that equal priority would be given to social and economic regeneration. That was honoured in the breach rather than in the observance.