Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Every second week we hear of another plan to create so many jobs. When the Government came to power it said it would create 100,000 net new jobs. In fact, in the past year, 1,200 net new jobs were created. It also said it would create 10,000 net new jobs in financial services but approximately 10,000 net jobs have been lost in this sector. This week we heard about 20,000 new jobs in manufacturing but there is no net money being brought to the table in that regard.

It is very important that we are honest and do not over-egg what is happening here. In the press statement on this ten months ago, the Minister promised that €19 million would be made available and that 7,700 new jobs would be created. In his reply, the Minister said 116 jobs were supported. He never once told us about the jobs created. Has one job been created from this so far? If he does not have that information now, can we put in place a mechanism whereby we can measure how many new jobs are created from this?

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