Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

He was not as a matter of law part of the workforce. It is very well to raise a particular question such as this in the Dáil on this occasion, but I contrast it to the suggestion that the Labour Party has seen the light with regard to displacement of labour. The Labour Party last August commented on a proposed new scheme under which 15,000 non-EU citizens per annum would come into this country to work.

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