Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is correct that unemployment is down and employment is up in every county and region. However, progress in this regard is uneven and Sligo has not performed as well as other counties. It will be a priority of Government in the months and years ahead to ensure that those parts of the country where the recovery has been slow will experience an acceleration in their recovery. A big part of that will be investment in infrastructure, which I know is of particular importance to Sligo. I will ask the Tánaiste to give a more substantive response to Deputy McLoughlin when she returns from the Middle East.

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