Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

It is not only in this House that we have had collective amnesia about what went wrong. The august supplement in question stated: "Anxious? Worried? Relax - next year's property market will be steady rather than heady say the experts." A number of august economists and property consultants, including some famous and infamous ones, were then invited to give their views on what they believed would happen in the years ahead.

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