Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Obviously there will be a number of opportunities to have a targeted approach to stimulating the economy and ensuring the maximum number of people continue to be employed. It is essential this analysis is done, and continues to be done, in order that there is a targeted approach. Is the approach of the stimulation that it will be jobs rich? It is one thing to make sure businesses recover but it is another that they recover and that good quality employment is provided where public money is invested in that recovery. What are the principles behind the analysis that was done? It is very welcome that the analysis was done. It is something that was called for at the Covid committee very recently by some of the employer organisations. They were quite critical that it was not done until very late in the day after the last crash. They made a point of saying it needed to be done to have a targeted approach in the recovery.

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