Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I do not understand the Taoiseach. I try to be constructive and offer suggestions. He launched this document yesterday that refers to 300,000 jobs. It would be great were that to happen and the Labour Party certainly will support whatever must be done to make it happen. However, the measures that are required to make it happen are not there. It is cruel to tell people who are out of work and who are worried about the future that 300,000 jobs will be created. They do not believe it and I do not believe anyone in this room believes it, other perhaps than the public relations people who have been spinning it.

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