Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)

Under Fianna Fail 800,000 jobs were created in the past 11 or 12 years. That is an incredible achievement that is standing to the economy at the present time. As Senator Walsh said on the Order of Business yesterday, an extra 800,000 people are paying taxes and making a return to the Exchequer, which colleagues on both sides of the House did not have in the 1970s or 1980s when in government.