Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

In his six budgets, his "book of budgets" as he described them, he reshaped Ireland into a harsh, vicious, winner-takes-all society. That was his aim, as we now know. I hope the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Brennan, was not one of those present in those dark days, 20 years ago, when the Progressive Democrats conspiracy was being hatched in rooms around this city. Sadly, one of the key conspirators was Mr. McCreevy. He was a classic class warrior who believed in class war. He delivered the worst excesses of United States capitalism to this State over those six and a half years. It is unfortunate that we had to live through those budgets in what the media liked to call the era of "good time Charlie". It was a great time for the plethora of wealthy developers, the auctioneering class, the racing industry and those engaged in all types of cute scams——

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