Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not making any thesis that anyone who sets up their own business are inferior. What the Minister read into my argument in his response was that half of those jobs he claimed he created were in fact created by people who have the courage and the ability to set up their own company. If one takes those figures out of it, then 33,000 jobs were created. The fact is that the jobs are lower paid and incomes are not rising. We have to offer some sort of alternative. The Minister needs to put a focused strategy in place involving the State agencies and local enterprise offices to give this age cohort the support it needs and the encouragement that there is a future for it on this island.

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