Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The medium-term fiscal framework currently provides for no change in unemployment levels next year. Is the Minister predicting that as a result of measures to be introduced in the budget, we will see an overall net increase in employment, or reduction in unemployment, next year? I do not see how that can be the case if we are simultaneously committed to continuing to reduce public sector numbers.