Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Let us take 2014, for example. If one looks at the figures in mid-2014 and the different factors that make up GDP, all of them - personal consumption, Government expenditure, gross fixed capital formation and exports - with the exception of net exports, were lower at that point in mid-2014 than they were pre-crisis. The exception was gross exports which were miles above net exports.