Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I attended the implementation of the working plan in Waterford and I pay tribute to the group down there. It is superb. It has very much got behind the regional action plan for the south east. Overnight something like 10,000 construction jobs were lost in the south-east area. Its unemployment rate is still higher than the national average but it has bucked the trend and grown employment the most. It still has much to do but the arrow is on the way up. We will ask all the politicians in the area to get behind the implementation group because it is delivering.