Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Cowen well knows, this country was in an extraordinarily difficult situation just a number of years ago. Yesterday we saw the employment figures again improving and we saw the level of unemployment being reduced to 6.8%, a figure which the Deputy's party said would never be reached, and it also said that the targets in the Action Plan for Jobs would never be reached. That is the position from which the Deputy is coming in terms of his view of the various actions that have been put forward-----

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