Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I never give trivial answers. I do not trivialise what has happened to our economy or the difficulties people have in coping with the consequences of what has happened to it, including the loss of jobs. There are people in Cork this morning, for example, who are being asked for voluntary redundancies. I am acutely aware of that, as is the Government.

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