Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will come to that. Foreign direct investment companies - as I said on the Order of Business earlier, have provided 20,000 jobs. Members should read the IDA statistics for 2017. They should not put up the bad sign over the door of our country. Senator Kelleher raised the issue of the people sleeping in the doorways of Cork city. There are some who unfortunately are there but there was an organised campaign of organised begging by people from outside our country before Christmas, as the Senator knows quite well.