Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

With regard to the matter mentioned again by Deputy Gilmore, it is correct that employment was being created when his party was in Government, at a rate of 1,000 per week. We raised this to 1,500 per week, creating 600,000 jobs in the past ten years. He blew over that very quickly.

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