Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Regarding unemployment, I might point out that the best route out of poverty is a job. This Government has been determined to see the economy return to full employment and has pledged to achieve that by 2018. At the start of the year the ESRI predicted that unemployment would fall to 9% by the end of the year, and we have already reached that target. In fact, we are ahead of it. That is down from 14% at the height of the crisis. I do not want to be political about this in the way Senator White has been, but the reason the country is in this crisis-----