Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Our unions are planning on doing something early in the new year. What can the Tánaiste say to them? Is there anything coming out of this summit that offers them anything when the Government's medium-term fiscal outlook indicates that unemployment will go from 14.8% to 13% by the end of 2015. The promise is that we will get a reduction of less than two percentage points in unemployment.

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