Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Instead, why does he not engage constructively with the Opposition parties about what is required to get people back to work? It is the single biggest thing that must be done in Ireland. While I note the Taoiseach's points about the public finances, the banking system and so on and accept they are the other two legs of it, we cannot get economic recovery unless we get people back to work. The Government will not solve the problem in the public finances unless it gets people back to work——

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