Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that more people came in during the last year and I presume that until the laws change, they will continue to come in in reasonably large numbers, and we might even get a rush of people trying to get in ahead of that. As opposed to that, I would have thought there was an outflow of people and it would be expected to continue over the coming year because they would take up employment and would not be drawing social welfare anymore. The Minister gave us the figure previously that one third of the adult recipients who are eligible to take up employment are now in employment. I would have thought that with the demands for workers and their increasing capability in English, and so on, more and more of them would engage in the workforce.