David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. It might be helpful if he would ask the enterprise agencies to forward a year-on-year breakdown from 2008 regarding jobs created and jobs lost. It would be more useful for assessing what progress has been made in recent years. The last time those figures were released was in 2013, so it would be interesting to see what advances were made last year. While I accept that jobs are being created, jobs are also being lost. It is the net increase that is important and that interests people.

There is progress, and I support that, but we must do a great deal more. Perhaps the Minister would look at the recommendations of the South East Economic Development Strategy, SEEDS, report that have not been implemented and prioritise those as actions that must be delivered as quickly as possible.