Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

We need practical measures to get people back to work. I have been suggesting such practical measures to the Taoiseach. The Labour Party makes proposals in the House, some of which I have identified. It puts them on the Dáil agenda and the Government votes them down. I put them forward and try to argue them with the Taoiseach. I suggest them and advance them to him——

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