Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The executive summary of the report acknowledges the core reason, namely, that we had more than 15% of people unemployed in this country as a result of a property bubble which I warned against on numerous occasions - Deputy Donnelly is right in that respect - and which I would warn against if it were to happen again.

It was a property bubble as opposed to the recovery here which is a jobs-led recovery in which unemployment has fallen from 15.2% to 8.8% this month.

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