Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I beg to differ with the Minister about the good quality jobs as very few good quality jobs are coming to west Cork. We find it an uphill struggle in making this happen. Unfortunately, we are turning to work schemes to see if we can make up many of the job losses and the fact that many low-income farmers and fishermen find it very difficult to thrive. Even with that, only 39 came to County Cork and 79 went to Mayo, which is very unfair. It shows how west Cork is being forgotten, even with the lowly case of a community employment or rural and social job. Unfortunately, west Cork has been forgotten. Will the Minister consider a jobs task force for west Cork in order to concentrate on bringing good employment to the area?

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