Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said we should be talking about jobs created rather than visits. At the end of November 2016 the unemployment rate in Wexford was 18.4% and it rose to 18.7% by the end of January 2017, so it is getting worse in Wexford while the national average is improving. The Minister might be planning to tell me about the 200 new jobs in the south-east but they are in other counties, not in Wexford. Is the State going to take hands-on action to deal with the fact Wexford is now one of the most deprived counties in the country?

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