Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I support the call for a debate on job creation. However, it is not the task of the Government to create jobs. Senator Harris referred to a Government stimulus package to encourage job creation. That is what we should be discussing. The Senator also referred to small and medium-sized businesses. Future Print, a printing factory in Baldoyle, announced yesterday that it was going to close. It was started by a 17 year old in a shed in Finglas 40 years ago and now employs 110 people. We need a stimulus job creation package from the Government. Jobs will not be created by a Government which states it wants to create them. Rather, a stimulus package would allow others to create them.

Although we had a debate on banking only two days ago, it seems unusual-----