Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We will focus on that as we have done. The success that Deputy Calleary has outlined, in relation to the tourism sector, will be continued. While I appreciate that the Deputy does not want to take lectures, the unavoidable truth is that the last two years of his party's term of office saw the collapse of 250,000 private sector jobs.

We are now creating 3,000 new private sector jobs net per month.

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