Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is correct that this Government certainly does not create jobs but other Governments have. With 500,000 people unemployed and this Government’s rate of job creation, we will be waiting 30 years for it to be tackled when many of us will be long dead. The Government is driving people into scam labour schemes to massage the figures. Its policies have failed and its solution is more of the same.

We had to listen to the miracle Minister, Houdini Howlin, tell us he is going to pull off the miracle of providing more teachers, nurses, doctors, midwives and gardaí. It is not as if we need more gardaí as there were 65 of them alone on Merrion Street today.

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