Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-ECOFIN Briefing: Minister for Finance

8:20 pm

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I do not agree with the Deputy's narrative that right-wing governments in Europe caused and deepened the crisis. When Greece went under, it was ruled by the socialists. They were far to the left of the social democrats we know commonly in European governments. When Portugal went under it was ruled by the left and the extreme left, so the people-----