Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would be the first to say to him that people have emigrated from the country and continue to do so. I resent that they feel that they have to leave. The Government has got to do the very best that it can in meeting that challenge. No more than Deputy Higgins's view of employment, I hope that, when the living city initiative is transferred out to Dún Laoghaire and that the pre-1915 houses and properties are being done up and renovated by plasterers, tradesmen, carpenters, brick layers and roofers, Deputy Boyd Barrett will recognise that somebody is prepared to work, that these are real jobs and not pretend jobs and that it will enhance the infrastructure-----

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