Mary White (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have no doubt the Minister is a brilliant academic. He is highly educated and a University of Oxford graduate but I want to see passion in him as regards bringing down this unemployment rate. If 40,000 people per year are emigrating, the figure could be 22%. As a person who created a company during the last recession in the 1980s, I know what unemployment does to people. I recommend Members read a document with evidence of the effects of unemployment on the mental health of people in an economic crisis.