Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

These companies have created tens of thousands of sustainable, quality jobs and they have delivered a first class world energy infrastructure. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are perfectly aware that to seek funding they could pursue matched capital investment funds from the European Investment Bank. They know they can make a useful investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to build health infrastructure, home retrofitting and a capital investment stimulus programme. These measures would deliver employment and could significantly reduce Ireland's potentially crippling structural unemployment levels.

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