Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)

No additional funding has been provided for the enterprise agencies. The Minister will realise that their record in net job creation in recent years has been pretty poor. There has been no appreciable improvement in the economies of the countries from which we attract much of our foreign directive investment, FDI, in particular the United States. Given the Government's projections of what is expected of those agencies during the coming years, what changes in policy or organisation does the Minister propose to get them to move from creating in net terms a couple of thousand jobs last year to creating the 100,000 or 150,000 planned for the next three to four years?

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