Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

-----that where it can be proven that an issue arises in respect of our own people - unemployed or otherwise - not being able to gain access to our labour market owing to people coming in from outside the European Union, it will be investigated vigorously. We do not want to be importing labour from outside the European Economic Area. We would investigate every matter in this regard, particularly the eight-month delay about which the Deputy spoke.

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