Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

Do the Minister and Ministers of State opposite understand that what is happening in the world is not the same everywhere? In Ireland, the standardised unemployment rate is now 6.8%. We have overtaken seven or eight countries in the past few months, since the Minister took office, and we will overtake the European average by January or February. Do they realise how serious this is and that they cannot wash their hands of it?

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