and emf. imf. i know the promise emblazoned on almost every fine gael poster was to get ireland working. and yet in the program for government the plan to get ireland working is met with one of the few specific commitments in the program for government to slash 25,000 public sector jobs. you don't have to be an economic expert to realize you don't get ireland working by 25,000 jobs being axed. it means 25,000 more people unemployed, it means less money being spent in the economy, it means more suffering. and i want to say that it is paragraphly depressing -- particularly depressing that the labour party are going to support deputy kenny, this government and this program for government. labour, frankly, should be ashamed of themselves to sign up for a program that is going to axe the jobs of 25,000 of the people who voted for them. very particularly, voted for them in the hope and expectation that their jobs would be safe. they should be ashamed of the fact that on national television and on nationa