John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At the very least, contact the office and determine whether it, and by extension, the Department of Finance, takes these issues into consideration. I am dealing with Waterford city, parts of which have an unemployment rate of between 30% and 35%. The unemployment problem is enormous. A State body is, in fairness, only doing its job and is undertaking an exercise which made perfect sense in 2007 and 2008. However, we are now living in a different time and it does not make sense any more. The changed circumstances have not been taken into consideration.