Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I am asking the Taoiseach how he can reconcile the prediction by his Government in the so-called national recovery plan - a national impoverishment plan, as I referred to it earlier - that there will be 5% GDP growth between 2010 and 2012 with the EU Commission prediction of 2.8% growth, that consumer spending will increase by 1% when the Commission claims it will decrease by 2.8% and that there will be an increase in employment by 18,500 and the Commission's prediction of a further decrease in employment of 4,000?

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