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Tue 11 Nov 2002Report expected to help talks on partnership dealA report released yesterday on the challenges facing the economy should help negotiations on a new national partnership deal, a trade union leader said last night.Mr Des Geraghty, the president of SIPTU, said the report of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) provided a "fairly sober look at the economy".