Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We put down this motion to bring to the attention of Government something it has failed to see, because its members have their heads so far stuck in the sand that they fail to realise there is a massive unemployment crisis. Despite the Government being two years in office and despite all its cheerleaders coming in to pump out the party line, it has failed to make any impact whatsoever on the unemployment crisis.

People may try to say that those emigrating are people returning to their home countries, as if it is acceptable that there is nothing more here to offer them. However, the reality is that if one goes to Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Vancouver, New York or London, one will know the streets there are filled with young Irish people. Some 87,000 people left these shores -----

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