Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

What role, if any, will the economic management council have in the implementation of the jobs programme that was announced by the Government recently? Will it have an overseeing role? Will various agencies of the State have to answer to it? How will the economic management council supervise the achievement of the target of creating 100,000 net jobs by 2015? As that has not been clarified, I ask the Taoiseach to do so now. What is the Government's estimate of the number of jobs that will be lost in the meantime? If the Government has a net estimate for job creation, such a figure must be known to it as well. Everybody considers that in the-----

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