Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To return to Deputy Pearse Doherty's previous point, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council recommends the full implementation of a correction of €5.1 billion, so there is no change of position in what it advises us to do. On the employment figure, it goes back to Deputy Michael McGrath's point. We are making a distinction between targets and forecasts, and what we have in here is a series of forecasts based on what is happening at present. An enormous amount of work is going on across Departments, particularly in Deputy Bruton's Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.