Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

-----but if he listens, he might learn something. A total of 54,000 have emigrated since he took office. I want to tell him what emigration is really like. Emigration will mean empty chairs at the dinner table this Christmas; it means grandparents never seeing their grandchildren and families and communities being devastated. Has the Taoiseach walked through any of our third level campuses recently?

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