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Mon 04 Apr 2007Taoiseach's statement: "We will build an Ireland of pride and great purpose"The following is the statement issued on behalf of the Taoiseach to announce the dissolution of the DáilWhen we first came to Government ten years ago, Ireland faced tremendous challenges. Unemployment was over ten per cent. Our long-term unemployment was over five and one half per cent; taxes were too high and the problems we faced as a society seemed beyond solution.