Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----that those people at work, for instance, received reductions in the universerval social charge, USC, which I think the Deputy supports, so she must have read about that, and reductions in regard to income tax, so, yes as a country we are in recovery. Last year and this year we will have an extra thousand people - some 40,000 people - at work and that will provide more resources to fund the vital services of the country, but for water we need to invest over a long period of time.

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