Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is that a function of the fact that the percentage of short-term unemployed is falling while the long-term unemployed, for whom it is more difficult to re-enter the workforce, are becoming a higher percentage of the overall number unemployed? Is that a contributing factor? The people who are short-term unemployed are taking up jobs and are being re-employed much more quickly whereas it is more difficult for people who are long-term unemployed to re-enter the workforce. Hence the participation rate-----