Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

-----and in their hubris, the captains and kings of the development industry advised citizens of other countries on easy ways to get rich. If we need a role model it should be the economy of the mid to late 1990s where over 600,000 jobs were created and growth was based on competitiveness, high educational standards, a credit flow from the banks to enterprise and hard work.

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