The Cork Deputies who have asked this question having left, and the question having been so long on the Clár ——

A question, Deputy.

I will be putting a few questions to the Minister. I would have expected that in his reply the Minister would have had something better to offer than he had. Right through his reply we heard nothing but small this and small that, when the problem is of immense proportions.

I must ask the Deputy to ask a question.

In his supplementary reply the Minister said technically that the Government can do nothing. The Government should be able to create an incentive. They should be able——

We cannot have a speech.

We cannot have a speech about Cork.

We cannot have a speech about anything, even Cavan, at Question Time.

I will take into account your ruling that we cannot make a speech even about Cork or the situation we find ourselves in there.

I invite the Deputy to read Standing Orders.

I want to ask a few questions. Would the Minister not agree that by creating confidence and providing incentives he would ensure that the Ringaskiddy programme would be completed, thereby providing employment? To provide jobs in the Cork area, will he ensure that the £120 million removed from the capital programme by this Government last February is re-introduced? The Minister and the Government could do that if they had the will and the political commitment to Cork to do it.

All I can do about the first part of the Deputy's question is to take note of it. It is not solely my responsibility or indeed directly my responsibility. I will discuss it with my colleagues. I am surprised that Deputy Lyons should attack the emphasis I placed in my reply on small industries as a means of solving the problem of unemployment in Cork and elsewhere. The experience here and abroad is that there is a better record in creating employment and sustaining it through good industrial relations in small industries than there is in large prestige projects which tended to be promoted by Governments all over the world in the sixties and seventies. In the light of experience the emphasis all over the world now is on small, viable, well-managed projects where there is a good relationship between employer and employees.