Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Whatever about the rest of us knowing the score in regard to the state of the public finances, the Taoiseach, as then Minister for Finance, had to have had a better knowledge of the situation than the rest of us or anybody else in the country. Why did he allow his party leader at the time to make a promise in respect of, for example, a 2% reduction in PRSI when he knew that there was not a hope in hell it would ever be delivered?

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