Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

We have regular meetings with the American Chamber of Commerce. We will discuss this issue at future meetings. I meet individual companies overseas and here. In the overall context, through the extraordinary inward migration to Ireland and the expanded third level system, we make every possible effort to facilitate low and high skill availability. The decision in May 2004 regarding the accession states represented a huge increase in labour force availability to Ireland. That should also be acknowledged by the companies concerned. It was unprecedented and caused many other pressures for us, as we discussed.

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