Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact we are seeing an increase in the number of jobs created at national level. The 58,000 jobs created in the past year are very welcome. That is the way we all want to see our country move. We want to see more people getting back to work but since 2011, we have seen unemployment grow in the Border region. The figures out yesterday show that in the Border region, unemployment has gone from 14.6% to 15.2%.

In regard to the jobs created last year, is the Minister in a position to give a breakdown of how many of them were in County Donegal? The Minister indicated in his reply that the jobs created in County Donegal were in existing IDA companies. That shows the potential of County Donegal and of companies which have set up there to grow. However, under this Government the story of new IDA companies coming to County Donegal has been very poor. We are not getting our share of the new investments. In regard to new investments, what has been the performance of the Government since it took office?

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