Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I accept that France, which is a country with a long history of structural socialism, and we all know what that does, has a higher rate of unemployment. I will cite some other examples. Does the Minister accept that the UK has an unemployment rate of 5.4%, the US has an unemployment rate of 4.6%, Australia has an unemployment rate of 4.3%, South Korea has an unemployment rate of 3.7% and Norway has an unemployment rate of 2.7%? These countries are our real competitors in the global market, not France or Romania.

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