Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Some eight in ten businesses are now struggling to fill vacancies.

We need a suite of new and novel solutions to address this. The highest level of demand is across the banking, finance and insurance sectors. These are jobs that can be done in any part of this country. To achieve this, we need to make our regions far more attractive not just for employers, but for employees as well.

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