Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Government has made it clear that putting people into employment is its top priority. If a multinational company came into this country and announced 1,000 new jobs for graduates, everybody in this House would welcome it. An additional 1,000 jobs are being created in the nursing sector. There are currently approximately 35,000 employed in the health service. These 1,000 posts for graduate nurses are additional jobs. It is not intended to extend the initiative beyond graduate nurses.

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