Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The answer to emigration is to create jobs here and that is what the Government's entire strategy is about. The strategy involves, first, attracting investment into the country. That means we have had to restore the country's reputation to get investment back into the country. We are seeing some signs of new jobs being announced and investment being generated and returning to this country. That is why we have published a strategy for the creation of the jobs here - the jobs action plan announced by the Government. That is why later this morning we will announce a further initiative which is aimed at attracting more jobs into this country. Every single day this Government is working at trying to get investment into the country and jobs generated here.

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