Joe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome all our visitors and thank them for the presentations. I share Deputy Byrne's pride as a Government Deputy, and we are from each of the coalition parties. We have seen much achievement in the area of job creation, with unemployment now down to 11.1% or 11.2%. We are making massive strides in that area, with 31,000 new people at work in the past year. We are extremely happy about that, as it is our raison d'être.