The government says more jobs will be announced here in the coming "hours, weeks and months".

More than 800 have been announced by multinationals in the past week alone.

At the quarterly review of the Action Plan for Jobs, the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Jobs Minister say major new supports for job creation have been delivered in the past three months.

88 of the 100 measures earmarked for delivery were completed according to the progress report - and the coalition says unemployment will fall from the current 11 percent level to below 10 percent in the next twelve months.

The news comes as Amazon today announced the creation of over 300 new jobs in Dublin.

The highly-skilled roles— datacenter technicians, software engineers and customer support staff—will be hired over the next two years and will be based out of Amazon’s expanded offices in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

As part of this announcement Amazon has expanded its presence in the city by adding more capacity to existing office space. This brings Amazon’s office space to over 100,000 square feet with room to further grow the number of employees in Dublin.

And Mr Kenny says lending to small and medium businesses is a big part of the plan.