Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are a group of young people in the Visitors Gallery today whom, I would wager, know more about water conservation than do many Deputies in this Chamber. They know that water is not a free commodity and that it is a finite resource. They also understand that someone has to pay. I want to speak about what our young people are interested in, including the 104,000 new jobs created since 2012; the decrease in unemployment from an all-time high of 15.1% to 9.8% and the increase in tourism numbers to 8.9%. I would like the Opposition to come into this Chamber and talk up our country instead of talking it down and to offer solutions on how we can build on the recovery of this country. That is the real story about which we should be speaking today.

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