In the first place, I should like to give the number of unemployment insurance books exchanged and new books issued in each insurance year from 1928-1929 to date. These figures are not a precise indication of the numbers of people in insurable employment in these years, but when we compare one year with another they indicate what the trend is. In 1928, the figure was 210,000; in 1929, 213,000; in 1930, 209,000; in 1932, 230,000, and for the 12 months ending in March this year, 274,000. These are figures for men only. The total for men, women, boys and girls was, in 1931, 294,000, and in the 12 months ending March, 1933, 366,000. The income from the sale of unemployment insurance stamps in 1928 was £655,000; in 1929, £679,000; in 1930, £703,000; and in 1933, if the old rates of contribution had continued to be paid, the income would have been £760,000, an increase of £60,000, which represents 15,000 men getting employment for 50 weeks. It is on facts like these that I base my contention that there are more people in insurable employment in this country now than ever there were since the Free State was established. We are getting the job done and Deputies opposite who come in here periodically and wail their jeremiads for the amusement of the back benchers of their own Party cannot conceal the fact that the job is being done. They quote statistics which they obviously do not understand. They misrepresent facts in their own constituencies. They talk about circumstances outside their constituencies about which they know nothing at all, and the whole purpose of it is to try to pretend that this country is not weathering the storm when, in fact, it is. There are several ways of defeating the efforts of the Government and the people to improve the position in this country, and one of them is to keep up that continuous wail which Deputies opposite are always at. They wail every day here and every week-end they wail around the country and there is no justification for the wailing except their own disappointment and disillusionment about their prospects of ever getting back into office.