Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have been dealing with pensions and now we are dealing with the measures through which the State supports people of working age who do not have an income of their own or whose income is so inadequate that they need State support. Looking at the overall figures here, the provisional outturn for 2013 for expenditure in this area was €5.5 billion while the projected outturn for the current year is €4.883 billion, representing a reduction of 11.2% which is quite significant. What rate of unemployment is the Minister projecting? I have a few more questions but perhaps the Minister would like to answer that one now.