Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Yes, but those growth rates, unfortunately, turned out to be not very sustainable and, similarly, the numbers who were unemployed were far higher. That Government set many of those figures the previous September but it turned out the numbers on which they were predicated were optimistic, to use the kindest word, or extremely optimistic. I can understand why that may-----