Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the GDM report. Some of the comments about supports for young entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs were somewhat disappointing. Even allowing for the impact of the great recession, I wonder if more could be done. Youth unemployment is a common problem in most European Union countries. I refer to an interesting article in Süddeutscher Zeitung which states that what happened to Ireland was the result of a failure of the political class. I suppose this relates to a failure of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael down through the decades in that we could have had a much more community-controlled economy, as Deputy Tóibín said, and a more entrepreneurial economy based on our own strengths. Instead of which, the article notes the massive emigration figure of 300,000, which compares to 5 million Germans leaving Deutschland-----

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