Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)

No, Minister. Its representatives used to come to Oireachtas committee meetings and give a rough estimate of the jobs they hoped to create. I hope the Minister is wrong and that they have plans to create jobs in the years ahead. If the Minister of State cannot tell me about them today, perhaps he will undertake to find out what their predictions are for job creation for the next couple of years. When unemployment is at more than 400,000 they surely must have some idea of what jobs they expect to create in the future. That is the least we can seek. If these agencies do not have plans, what plans do the Ministers have? If they do not have plans, I ask them to do me a favour and look at our document, New Era.

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