Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Does he remember that in 1997 the public finances were in surplus but they are now in serious deficit, we were creating 1,000 extra jobs a week while the current Government has been losing 2,000 jobs a week and he inherited an economy from the outgoing Government, which was in a healthy state, and has made an absolute mess of it?

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