Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----employment in companies supported by our agencies fell by 500 during the period his party was in office and since we have come in, it has grown by 500. We have reversed the trend that his party presided over and we are determined to go further.

We are now sitting down with the stakeholders in the regions to see how we can best develop the potential strength of those regions. One of those is in the distillery and in the food sector. We are determined to see the growth of that food sector. Indeed, Deputy Cowen himself knows-----

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