Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)

I deduce from the Minister of State's response that the most extraordinary situation now exists and that something which is central to the Government's job creation programme will only involve the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in a peripheral way. He will be a member of the Cabinet sub-committee which will discuss these issues in a general way and sign off on them, but the other Ministers mentioned are the ones who will be centrally involved. I find this very strange, but perhaps the Minister of State can allay my fears.

When NewERA was first mooted by the Fine Gael Party, the target was 105,000 jobs. Does that remain the target or has the target moved? Is there any target now.

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