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

The question is in a similar vein. Over the past number of weeks, the Labour Party has said that 60,000 new jobs have been created and the Minister of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, referred to 5,000 jobs every week being created. The reality is shockingly different. The job creation tentatively experienced last year has ground to a halt and a number of sectors are under fierce pressure. The question is how the Government seeks to reverse it.

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