Denis Landy (Labour)

The Government has brought forward an action plan for jobs, a pathways to work initiative and an internship scheme. There has been massive direct investment in this country during the past couple of months despite that the Government has been only in office for one year. The Government intends to reform local government and to divide the national legislature from local practitioners, an issue much talked about by Fianna Fáil for almost 25 years but about which it did nothing.

The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, has been criticised about the lack of new schools. The many communities which are to get new schools are grateful for them, including Carrick-on-Suir, the pleas of which in regard to the provision of new VEC school were ignored by Fianna Fáil for 20 years. Students in the current VEC school are spread across three buildings in the town. They are glad that the Labour Party and Fine Gael are in Government and that they are going to provide this new school.