Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I remember being down in Killarney and saying this €500 million in extra charges is not on and I objected to that. I got a lot of stick for it within my own party at the time, indeed. But that and the general, sort of, looseness about public expenditure, without any, sort of, analysis of performance or delivery was an economy running out of control and it clearly went over the edge.