Credit guarantee Bill and CSO figures
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy asks about the credit guarantee amendment Bill and a debate on household survey findings; the Taoiseach says the Bill is scheduled and welcomes discussion of improving employment figures.
When will the credit guarantee (amendment) Bill be published? I understand it is on the A list. In that context, will the Taoiseach consider having the Central Statistics Office's national household survey findings for the end of 2014 debated in this House in the near future?
Comment on this
The Bill is scheduled for this session. I would be very happy to have the figures discussed in this House. There is a real momentum building at the moment as shown in the figures published by the CSO this morning. The figures show that unemployment has dropped from 15.2% just a few years ago to 10.3% for January 2015. Some 90,000 jobs have been created since 2012. There has been particularly strong growth in the construction and transportation sectors as well as a strong growth in the number of full-time jobs. I am happy for the Whips to have a discussion on this at the request of the Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.