Seanad debates

Wednesday, 26 March 2003

Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages.

 

Senator Mansergh and I spent every hour of our waking political lives worrying about how we were going to find jobs for the masses of young people who were coming into the labour market. We reduced unemployment from 18% to less than 5% and instead of seeing between 40,000 to 50,000 people leaving the country each year, we saw between 20,000 to 40,000 coming in. Instead of worrying about finding jobs for people, we found ourselves formulating an employment policy to allow more people to enter the country to take up vacant positions.

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