Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Leader to call on the Minister for Health to ask HIQA to initiate an immediate review of hospital procedures regarding CJD in light of the discovery that potentially CJD-infected instruments were used on patients at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. It is important that this be done.

In light of the BAI report on public service broadcasting, I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to come to the House to discuss that report, particularly the sector that relates to the Irish language media. The Crowe Horwath report is based on flawed methodology, using only JNLR statistics, which do not take into consideration that most of the people who speak Irish live in a Gaeltacht area. Therefore, I believe it is flawed. Also, some of the suggestions in it might be in contravention of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language. I would welcome a debate on the Irish language media, particularly TG4 or Raidió na Gaeltachta.

I note we have another press conference this morning on job creation. We had one yesterday. The Government is very good at doing press conferences about creating employment, but the long-term unemployed need work, not promises. There has been a good deal of talk but not as much delivery. We have had the 2012 Action Plan for Jobs, which promised that 100,000 new jobs would be created by 2016. We were promised 10,000 extra jobs in financial services and an extra 20,000 in the manufacturing sector, but the Government during its term of office has overseen a loss of 24,000 jobs for young people. Some 187,000 people have left these shores and 10,700 full-time jobs have been replaced by 40,400 part-time jobs. Many of the job plans are based on a growth figure of 2%, but we do not have that level of growth. It is important that when we return after the recess we have some focused debates on job creation, as this is the main challenge facing the country.