Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)

I will obtain an estimate of the number of graduates but the figure is certainly not 100,000. There are placements available for graduates. In the past week, I took the trouble of speaking to two recruitment agencies, one of which informed me that recruitment had increased by 26% in retail, wholesale and purchasing, by 21% in production, manufacturing and materials, by 12% in engineering and utilities and by 12% in the medical, professional and health care areas.

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