Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Hession made a point about incentives or disincentives to work. Every time there is a recession and people are made unemployed, there is almost an assumption people do not want to work, whereas all the evidence proves that when there are plenty of jobs, we reach full employment quickly. I am conscious that when we are talking about social protection, we always refer to incentives or disincentives to work. People do not need an incentive to work; they want to work. That language needs to be used more carefully. People want to work and all the evidence proves people will want to work when good employment is put in front of them. I am wary of that type of language.