Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

There is a calculated propaganda campaign here and in Europe to talk up prospects, and say that the worst is over, things have changed and we are now at the beginning of significant growth. Does the Taoiseach not agree it is all propaganda? The reality of the hard cold figures tell a different story. It is no coincidence that the EU summit discussed job creation; it wants to sell an austerity treaty so it dresses it up-----

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