Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and its economic position. He will also be aware of the actions taken by the Government in the context of restructuring the banks and making decisions that have improved the capacity of the economy to grow. The Deputy has often made mention of the fact that we lost 250,000 jobs in the private sector, many of them in his own county and the surrounding region, in the three years prior to the Government's entry into office. In the past 12 months, 20,000 jobs have been created in the private sector.

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