Professor Philip Lane:

What I am saying is that the potential for the economy to employ more people and grow more would also be influenced by the availability of workers. One area in Ireland in which we could add to the labour market is by bringing in people who currently find it is not possible to work for different reasons. That is a much broader population than the unemployed. Many people are not registered as unemployed who might, if conditions were right, be interested in being able to work.