Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's confidence. Has he given the increase in labour costs in what were previously developing economies to which a great deal of manufacturing was outsourced in the middle part of the last decade and identified any competitive advantage that may be derived from that labour cost increase and quality issues in those countries that may assist him in reaching the target? Does the Minister think 20,000 is perhaps an unambitious target and could he force it up to 30,000 given the amount of money being invested in the sector at the moment?

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