Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----I hope today's CSO figures of 58,000 jobs created last year are an indication of us heading in the right direction. I read headlines in the newspapers suggesting that all of those putting in the water meters are from other countries. I think ten of the 400 came back from Sasana to be employed here but people put different interpretations on these things. I know about emigration and I have a lot of contacts with emigrants. I would like to think that when the economy improves and there are brighter days ahead that some of those who have left will want to come back.

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