Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

He did not want to hear what I had to say.

That Government did not agree on taxation, spending, issues of privatisation or banking. Due to its inaction and the singular inability of that Government in the 1980s to agree on practically anything, our country stagnated for five years. That is not my view, it is the common historical economic consensus of what happened in the 1980s.

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