Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

Last year 76,000 people emigrated from this State, which is roughly 1,400 a week. Some 210 people have emigrated every single day of this Administration so far. Some 12,000 were wrapped around the RDS in Dublin in a queue last weekend in a effort to leave this country to obtain work. We saw thousands of people queueing from early hours in Cork yesterday morning to do the same. The curse of emigration we saw in the 1950s and 1980s and that ravaged this country is back with a vengeance due to this Government's policies.

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