David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the Order of Business a number of weeks ago, I asked the Taoiseach about the status of the Action Plan for Jobs for the south east and whether it was the intention of the Government to re-evaluate that plan. Since then we have had the publication of the CSO quarterly household survey, which shows that unemployment in the south east is still dangerously high at 12.5%. It is double that of our capital city of Dublin and even more than double the mid-east figures. There was also-----

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