Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Why is it that the Minister is so specific on debt and deficit targets? The Minister is so specific on the processes for achieving what he calls stability and utterly non-specific in terms of giving targets and timescales for addressing the unemployment crisis. How can he say the Government is taking growth and jobs seriously when he does not have anything like the projections for reducing unemployment that he has for reducing the deficit? We know exactly what his plan is to reduce the deficit and debt. He has forecasts extending three or four years, but the targets will drop by a certain amount and, of course, the targets are never met, but none the less he has very specific targets. Where are the specific targets for reducing unemployment either in this country or in Europe? Where are the specific targets for increasing growth?