I welcome the publication yesterday of the wording for the children's referendum and commend the Minister for Children on the work she has done. As Deputy Troy said, the Fianna Fáil Party will support the amendment. I hope we will have a sensible campaign in the coming weeks around this very important issue.

The CSO quarterly national household survey statistics were stark and unfortunately may have been lost among other issues. Long-term unemployment is now 60% of total unemployment. There have been some good announcements this week and the IDA continues to do some fantastic work but we have a serious problem. Has the Cabinet sub-committee met to discuss unemployment recently? There is nothing on job creation in the A or B list of the legislative programme, while on the C list there is only legislation to abolish county enterprise boards. Given the challenge presented to the political system and the country by those figures, what plans does the Government have?

Deputy McConalogue and I were wondering what the Tánaiste has done with the Government's allocation of tickets for the match on Sunday. It is one of the allowances the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform was not able to abolish. Has he given them to the Taoiseach or to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources? If there are any tickets left over, we will be able to look after them on this side of the House.

I welcome the support of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Deputy Catherine Murphy for the children's referendum. I hope we will have a campaign that is measured, reasoned and informative. I am confident that will be the case.

Deputy Calleary is right to raise the major challenge we face in getting people into employment and back to work. If I was on the other side of the House this morning, that would be the first topic I would raise. The current Opposition obviously has its own priorities.

The opposition to the Tánaiste is sitting behind him.

We cannot legislate people back into work so we will not see that reflected in the legislative programme. There was a Cabinet sub-committee meeting on the matter this morning and a range of measures is being implemented, such as the €90 million microfinance loan scheme, the €450 million credit guarantee scheme, the €150 million development capital scheme and the proposals for Innovation Fund Ireland.

We have taken a range of initiatives, including the establishment of a manufacturing development forum, the clustering development team in the digital sector and in regard to cloud computing and the health care-life sciences area. There will be a meeting of the export trade council this afternoon. Not a day goes by without the Government working on some initiative or other to get back people back into employment.

As regards the allocation of tickets, it has come as a bit of a revelation to me to discover how many Mayo and Donegal people are in government or working for the Government. There is huge demand for tickets and I am sorry for Deputy Calleary but we will not be able to help him from this side of the House.

How about a swap for the hurling?

The hurling tickets are even more sought after.

I call Deputy McDonald.

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Will the Deputy hold it a moment? I will call him in time. Let people speak. I assure him that I see him up there.

I do not know whether to laugh or cry when the Tánaiste extols the priority the Government attaches to job creation and then refers to the damning figures in today's newspapers. The initiatives the Government is taking are failing.

This is the Order of Business.

The Ceann Comhairle gave leeway to others.

I know but I was distracted, unfortunately.

Perhaps the Ceann Comhairle will be momentarily distracted again.

The Tánaiste should give over. Is he seriously suggesting the Government is dealing with the jobs crisis in this State? He is not codding anybody with that nonsense.

Can we have something on the Order of Business?