Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach has ended up trying to do the impossible today when he could have done so much different. He could have made a radical change in the way the composition of his Cabinet reflects itself. The people know what the Taoiseach seems to have missed. They know that nearly half a million people, 434,000, many of them young, highly qualified and experienced, are now on the dole or, in the case of 50,000 or 60,000 of them, face emigration. This again has become a reality. Young people desperate to get jobs cannot do so and some of them who are forced to emigrate from this country-----

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