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
Michael 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-----