Dáil debates

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages

 

6:40 pm

Photo of Mary Mitchell O'ConnorMary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have spent the past year trying to make sure foreign direct investment companies come to our country and into regional and rural areas, which was devastated and about which Deputy Boyd Barrett sometimes has no idea. He does not have a clue about these companies. He talks about jobs. Jobs are for people. These are young people trying to start a life and set up or buy a home and they need jobs. Many of these people do not rely on social housing. They want to go out and earn and try to make sure they can rear their families. In Seapoint Rugby Club - Deputy Boyd Barrett represents that area and those people as well - for many people in my sons' age group, there was not even a rugby team left because they all had to leave this country. There is approximately-----

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