Noel Treacy (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

The memory of massive dole queues, rampant inflation and a criminal level of emigration still sends a shiver down the spine. This is a painful legacy of the parties opposite and it took Fianna Fáil's return to Government in 1987, and the initiation of the social partnership model, which Fine Gael opposed, under the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, to set us on the course we are following for the exciting years ahead.

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