Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are near full employment. We have quality educational establishments. People do emigrate. I did my leaving certificate in 1984. Many of my friends left these shores to go to Boston or Melbourne to work. Many did not come back. Many of my friends left Cork as gay men and women because they could not be gay in my country. Some of them never came home. We live in a much better Ireland today.