Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I asked the Taoiseach if he would consider changing tack and setting aside this austerity policy. He said in his response, if I am quoting him properly, that austerity policies on their own cannot work, but that is all he is giving us. There are no initiatives for job creation. There are no initiatives to deal with any of these matters. Will the Taoiseach lift the recruitment embargo? Will he reopen the 2,000 closed public hospital beds? Will he tell the House how many of the 3,800 will be replaced and will he stop paying the people's money into the bad banks?

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