Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are media outlets that spend their time reminding us time and again that people distrust politicians. The reason is that they were sold down the river in 1977 when they were told that they could have free car tax and free health services, that rates would be abolished, that there would be investment and that they would be better off. There was only an inflationary bubble, and the country ended up in dire straits.

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