Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion
3:25 pm
Joe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I welcome all our visitors and thank them for the presentations. I share Deputy Byrne's pride as a Government Deputy, and we are from each of the coalition parties. We have seen much achievement in the area of job creation, with unemployment now down to 11.1% or 11.2%. We are making massive strides in that area, with 31,000 new people at work in the past year. We are extremely happy about that, as it is our raison d'être.