Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Brian Cowen:
Okay. If that is the view of the European Union fine, if that's their view. I mean if you are asking me do I believe we were fiscally imprudent? At that stage, my view is full employment was the overall policy objective. We had surpluses. You know, we were in a better shape than a lot of the other countries and one of the controversies at the time was why was Ireland being singled out when there were others who were actually in excessive deficit procedure at the time.
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