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

The Government should send postcards to Perth and Canberra in Australia, and to New York and London, because the young people of this State could not wait for it to get its act together. They have given up and left. It is time the Government got its act together. It announced that policy almost three years ago. When the Government came to power the unemployment rate was 13.5%, as per the live register. Now it is 13.3%. That is in addition to the 176,000 people who have emigrated on the Government's watch.

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