Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is no disconnect between my words and what we know is happening on the ground. In the past 12 months we have had some 16,000 individual start-ups in this country, which shows the motivation and ambition of people to get up and work. There is a churn every month of 36,000 on the live register, which indicates that people move off the live register into the world of work. Unfortunately, however, they are replaced by others.

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