Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government's problem is that it has again had to adjust downwards the growth projections. That gives the lie to the claim that its strategy is working.

The Government has also had to revise upwards the unemployment projections, so the Tánaiste should not come in with his own fairytale that all is well, because it is not. By the way, nobody ever contested the fact the budget deficit had to be tackled. We produced proposals to do precisely this, but in a different way.

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