I listened to the Taoiseach in welcoming the announcement of 1,000 jobs to be created by Amazon and agree that it is great news. It shows again the importance of foreign direct investment to the country, but, despite being promised in the programme for Government, there is a lack of balanced regional development. In my constituency of Roscommon-Galway there have been no jobs announcements and only for LEO-----

Only for Leo.

-----there would be little in the way of an increase in employment. LEO stands for local enterprise office; it is the same as the Taoiseach's first name.

It is a serious matter. As I pointed out to the Taoiseach previously, thousands of people are leaving the constituency to find work. Up to 1,000 come to Dublin each day. That is no life for families. I will ask a straight question. When can we expect to see real jobs being announced for County Roscommon and the Galway part of my constituency because it is not happening?

I may quote the Deputy on that in the future. I may even include it in my leaflets, particularly those for consumption around the country.

The announcement of 1,000 jobs by Amazon in Dublin is extraordinarily welcome. It is a real vote of confidence in the Irish economy. Realistically, jobs like those provided by major tech companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and so on will only happen in big cities with a critical mass. If those jobs had not gone to Dublin, they would not have gone elsewhere in Ireland. They would have gone to Tel Aviv, San Francisco or Amsterdam. We need to realistic about that.

That is not to say, however, that we cannot have foreign direct investment, FDI, in all parts of Ireland. We have had many positive job announcements around the country and very much outside the Dublin region. I will give the Deputy a few recent examples of job announcements. There were 350 by Abtran in Sligo, 200 by Combilift in Monaghan, 200 by Avery Dennison in Longford, 187 by Crowley Carbon in Wicklow, 220 by Netwatch in Carlow-----

There has not been much for Roscommon.

-----400 by WuXi Biologics in Dundalk, and 600 by Edward Lifesciences in Limerick.

There is still none for Roscommon.

One thousand jobs have been announced for Dublin.

I do not have an example to give the Deputy in Roscommon, but-----

There is none there.

-----we are working on it.

We are out of time. Thank you, Taoiseach.

I know the Deputy will want to welcome the fact that unemployment in County Roscommon has fallen from 4,347 to 2,377. That must be welcomed.

That is due to the fact that people are leaving to work elsewhere.