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

As the Deputy will have heard me say before, unemployment has fallen and the number of jobs has increased in every county in Ireland; 80% of the new jobs created in the past year or so were created outside the Dublin area. Obviously, people make decisions for many different reasons. I appreciate it is a very long way to travel from Roscommon to Dublin, but there are people in other rural counties who choose to commute and who want to live in rural areas and commute to work. One cannot assume that if 700 jobs were provided in Roscommon, all these people would necessarily give up their jobs in Dublin and take up the jobs in Roscommon.

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