Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but that is the point I am making. Six thousand net jobs - or 6,500, according to the figures we have - were created in the first six months of this year. If we are to believe what happened last year, 60,000 jobs were created in a year, yet only 6,500 were created in the first six months of this year. Is it the case that the 60,000 did not exist and the figure was a result of the way the calculations were done, or are we seeing a sizeable slowing down of job creation?