Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I am simply asking if there is any intention of marking that event. At the time the Government held the view that the EEC should not be enlarged. Things have changed since then and we are pleased about that.

In 1979, the Minister for Economic Planning and Development, Dr. O'Donoghue, proposed that jobs could be provided, as he termed it, to lure women of marriageable age to work on some small Irish islands to prevent the local population dying out. Does the Taoiseach have any comment to make on that proposed policy from a predecessor in the area of economic planning and development?

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