Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Adams has again asked me for confirmation regarding issues in the budget that will be delivered tomorrow by the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. Let me confirm a number of matters for him. Interest rates have fallen from 14.4% to 4.3%. A total of 20,000 jobs have been created in the private sector whereas when we took office, 300,000 jobs had been lost in the private sector.

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