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Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is what I asked this morning.

Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I never claimed that.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Since the election, the Government has announced a jobs initiative, a jobs protection budget and an action plan for jobs, all of which were meant to create approximately 100,000 jobs by 2016. However, when one considers the Government's own statistics in a no-spin zone, the number of people who are unemployed continues to rise. The quarterly national household survey released last week...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Clearly, they have not become obsessed with jobs because unfortunately, the initiatives are not making any impact whatsoever. I put it to the Taoiseach the initiatives the Government has taken have contributed to the worsening of the position. At its most basic, the decision to reduce the capital investment programme resulted in a net loss of 8,000 construction jobs in labour-intensive...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----which is a decline of 40,000. This appeared under the radar, buried in the Department of Finance's own statistics released this April. Does the Taoiseach accept the Government's jobs initiatives are failing to make an impact and are not improving the position in respect of employment in Ireland?

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is dealing with it very badly. That is the problem. It is not about job career changes and so on but about access to employment and people getting jobs, people who are well qualified but unemployed, and long-term unemployed.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: The problem people have------

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Everybody-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Everybody in this House is-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----interested in creating jobs. The problem is, people are getting fed up with official documentation, launches and so on-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Take the launch in February, for example, when the Government claimed it would create 100,000 jobs. The Department of Finance's documentation a month and a half later claimed there would be 61,000 jobs, some 40,000 of a difference.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is why people are cynical.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am asking a supplementary question on a matter raised under the Standing Order, which I am entitled to do.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am asking a question on a matter raised, namely, unemployment. I am simply putting it to the Taoiseach-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----that the SME sector is hurting very badly and is not getting access to credit in spite of what the Taoiseach claimed. His suggestion of a partial loan guarantee scheme is marginal and will have little or no impact in terms of employment in the SME sector, or access to credit.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: The measures the Taoiseach has taken since the budget, from the pension levy which took €500 million from pensioners-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----to the reduction in the capital programme, from the extra costs on business in terms of redundancy costs and so on-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: All of these are making the situation worse.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is about time-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest respect, a Cheann Comhairle, I have been interrupted non-stop since I started. I am entitled to ask a question.