Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

The Minister did not mention that the other day tourism was reported as being back to 1998 levels. Does the Minister or his Government have any proposals in this regard? Not everybody will be a fourth level postgraduate worker in a multinational company doing information technology. We want people back working in shops, hotels and other tourism areas. Has the Government any proposals, such as graduate employment placement or business guarantee loan schemes? The Labour Party has made such proposals for two and half years in order to get business and people working again.

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