Taoiseach rejects claim jobs were created to win election

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is rejecting suggestions that public service jobs were generated to win the General election.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is rejecting suggestions that public service jobs were generated to win the general election.

He was reacting to a report in a newspaper that 14,000 public vacancies were specially created to buy votes last May.

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