Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

I must be careful because Deputy Hogan has made gloomy forecasts in the past which did not turn out as he had predicted. I commissioned a study from Forfás last year on the state of manufacturing in Ireland today vis-À-vis internationally traded services. An important outcome of that analysis was that while manufacturing jobs have been lost the yield and output from Irish manufacturing has increased.

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