Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

I am telling the House what happened, there is no reminiscence about it. The Department of Education and Science is there, phase one happened under Brian Lenihan and phase two happened under me. I am not reminiscing, I am telling the truth.

This Government is committed to providing jobs for rural areas. Yesterday, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment announced 170 jobs in the triangle of Roscommon, Athlone and Longford. It is a small number of jobs but there is huge potential for growth because they are involved in marketing and research and development. I assume Senator Bannon was happy about that.