Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Bertie Ahern:

Well, the Department of Finance, if you look at their summer document, they come in at a low base and then you have ...

Like you can't have a situation where the economy is growing very strong, where you have unemployment, and still very high unemployment at those times ... where we have many difficulties within our economy and you just look at the budgetary position. Like it seemed to most countries from ... well, we're not talking about ... which year do you want me to .... you started in '98 now you end up to 2001 ... which year do you want me to-----