Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That was a diplomatic way of saying "don’t try and use us to back up your claims to have created thousands of jobs."

However both Irish and international studies agree that Fine Gael and Labour have had a significant impact in one area, they have made fiscal policy dramatically more regressive. They replaced a policy of putting the biggest burden on those with the most to one of putting the biggest burden on those with the least.

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