Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The essence of my question is the number of jobs created, but the Minister has not responded to it. While he provided a good summary in terms of the planned disposals and expected receipts, he did not provide information on the number of jobs created. He speculated about how many jobs could be created if €1 million was spent here or there. It should be possible for him to provide the information sought on a project by project basis. The task of doing so is not as difficult as his officials might pretend. The new PPP projects are specific and few in number. We will be lucky to have a few additional ones during the course of the year. I am sure that, as part of the tendering process, labour, materials and so on are factored in. It should be easy to also factor in job creation figures.

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