Hildegarde Naughton (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to highlight the recent CSO figures recording 371,400 people signing on for the month of October. That is a decrease of 3,500 from September. I am delighted to see that Galway city is faring best of all the cities in Ireland when it comes to the reduction in unemployment. Galway's unemployment figure is currently at 8,943, which is the lowest figure since December 2008. Yesterday the Taoiseach was in Galway announcing 115 new jobs in three separate high-tech companies: 75 jobs in Avaya, a communications giant; 25 jobs in PFH technologies; and 15 new jobs in the indigenous IT company Vulcan Solutions, as well as 140 new jobs in Tuam, County Galway in Valeo Vision Systems. This is evidence of the progress made by this Government in getting people back to work and reducing the number of those on the live register.