David Cullinane (Sinn Fein)

My second point relates to jobs. I support the calls for a debate on jobs. There is no doubt that the Government's jobs initiative is an abysmal failure. I do not see any of the jobs the Government promised to create. I do not see how the jobs initiative has done anything to lift the domestic economy. All we see are more job losses. A further 26 manufacturing jobs were lost in Waterford this week, in addition to the 575 job losses in TalkTalk and the 950 job losses in Aviva Insurance. Far from jobs being created, we continue to see more jobs lost. It is important that we again have a debate on the fact that 450,000 people are out of work. Young people are still being forced to emigrate. Rather than blaming the previous Government and the Opposition, the Government should be delivering the jobs and investment that the people need to get this country back on track.