Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----can call for more action, can suggest more needs to be done with JobBridge and can press for more apprentices but they cannot deny the facts that are staring them in the face, which is that the Government has turned around the economy and more jobs are being created every day of the week. No Deputy on the Opposition side can deny it because they can see it in their constituencies. Of course there are real jobs.

To the extent that the Deputy wants us to examine aspects of the JobBridge programme, if he has reasonable criticisms, like his party leader, Deputy Gerry Adams, he could table a parliamentary question on the matter; we will give careful consideration to his report and anything he wants to say.

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