Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I repeat the point that if all one's eggs are put into the construction basket and a downturn in the sector occurs, it will give rise to emigration to new areas where there are opportunities such as western Australia, Canada and North America. This is exactly what we are seeing happen. From a sectoral point of view we are seeing this trend. We want to reverse this by creating the programmes we have to allow people with this skillset to retrain and move into other sectors. We are doing this and by degrees we are slowly succeeding in this vein.

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