Dáil debates
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed)
3:00 am
Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
I congratulate the new Deputies, Maureen O'Sullivan and George Lee, and I wish them well in their important work.
I listened very intently to Deputy George Lee this morning. He spoke at great length about the difference between the current economic situation and the situation we were in during the 1980s. He is right in many respects, for example, in what he said about the difference between Government debt and private debt. However, while I respect the large mandate he received last week, I fundamentally disagree with his analysis of the situation. I also lived through the 1980s - I am approximately the same age as Deputy Lee - but my memory of the causes of young people not being able to get jobs and of the country being in a period of great economic stagnation differs greatly from Deputy Lee's analysis.
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