job creation• In future, job creation will inevitably become one of the mainindicators of success.• In job creationterms its return on the £170 million so far invested has been small.• There was some sort of job creationscheme going on at the overstaffed scoreboard.• That is already improving our competitiveness and we shall see its effects on job creation before much longer.• The latter is specifically for revenueexpenditure for activities such as training; the emphasis is on job creation.• People in West Belfast are very cynical about the claims made on job creation in the area.• Competitiveness is the key to job creation and the key to competitiveness is the control of inflation.