Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

If it had paid attention to what we had to say about employment at a much earlier stage of this crisis, the Government would not be in a position where the numbers out of work have risen from 154,000 at the time of the last election to 425,000 now. As for the 50,000 that the Government thinks have disappeared, they have disappeared to Australia, America and anywhere but here in order to get a fresh start. If the Government listened to the Labour Party about what has happened to the banks - if it had listened on 29 September 2008-----

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