Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I make no apology for repeatedly asking this question. On both a human and economic level this is a disastrous situation for hundreds of thousands of people. While it is possible to select sub-groups or micro-elements in the economy where there has been some level of improvement, the general figures speak for themselves. The net job loss was 33,000.

Given that the Department of Finance said there would be a 13% level of unemployment in 2015, which was a review upward from the Government's initial objective, the Government must produce 76,800 jobs before 2015. Given that the trend is negative, how will that be achieved?

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