May I ask the Minister how many of the 14,950 jobs he referred to are like the ones he announced this week in Cork where the people who went to the firm in question discovered that the firm which the Minister said was going to increase employment were actually planning to lay off 26 employees?

Deputy Bruton, what you are now displaying and what you are doing is disorderly.

Would the Chair not agree that it is disorderly for a Minister to make misleading announcements——

Please, Deputy Bruton, do not try to circumvent the ruling of the Chair in that fashion.

——of the kind he made in Cork when he indicated that a firm were creating jobs, thereby encouraging people to seek employment with that firm, at a time when they were actually proposing to lay off employees?

The Deputy is raising a specific matter worthy of a separate question.

The Deputy is not interested in specifics.

The Minister has claimed that 14,000 new jobs——

Please, Deputy Bruton.

This is the type of announcement we are talking about.

The Deputy should read my script rather than some newspaper report. The script is a little more authentic. If the Deputy had bothered to read it before he tried to bring up this misleading information here, he would know the answer and would not be making a fool of himself.

I am not relying only on The Cork Examiner; the Meath Weekender also has a report on the Minister's announcement.

Question No. 5.

None of those statements is authentic. That is not what I said.

New jobs already filled.

Please, Deputy Bruton.

I am not responsible for newspaper reports.

If this kind of disorderly conduct continues I will suspend questions for today.

That would be very serious.

It would be serious.

A Cheann Comhairle, can I be helpful to the Deputies in suggesting that every script which I issued this year in relation to jobs is circulated and is available for Deputies who want to read it. They will find in every single announcement I made that I made a clear distinction between when the jobs would be created and what they were, and if there were 20 jobs already in place I said so. The scripts are available for anybody who wants to read them.

Sorry, Minister, I have called the next question.