Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the announcement today of 300 new jobs in Dublin at the recruitment website, Indeed.com. I also welcome the 1,000 new jobs for Cork. It is ridiculous to suggest the Government has not had some role to play in the creation of these jobs. If we were not creating jobs and were still haemorrhaging jobs at the rate which applied when we took over, we would be facing criticism for that. Credit must be given where it is due. We may not be physically putting people into jobs - we do not do what Fianna Fáil did and put people into the Civil Service - but we are creating the environment in which to create jobs. I do not often have to retaliate in this way. We are not haemorrhaging jobs but are at the other end of the scale and are creating jobs at a very significant rate. Unemployment is down to approximately 9% and while that is still not a welcome figure-----