Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The document Just the Job contained a set of proposals to reactivate the labour market. We have produced a number of sectoral proposals. The Taoiseach stated the Government has more people in training now than before. It has taken up a couple of the ideas we put forward but the numbers of places in those training measures have been increased by only a very small amount, a couple of hundred, when 250,000 people have lost their jobs over the course of the past two years.

The Taoiseach keeps speaking about the various economic measures the Government is taking. The one area which it is not dealing with-----

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