Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The question here is on the attendance at Davos on the last occasion. Perhaps I did not phrase myself as clearly as I could have. What I was trying to do was point out the situation where our country went over the edge economically. I heard the reports from the son of the late Tom Gilmartin who spoke the other night about his family's experience of what happened and the culture that existed in our country. It is true to say my party was in opposition at the time and it is also true that if Deputy Adams checks the record, he will find that the then-spokesman on finance, Deputy Richard Bruton, raised year after year at budget time the growing housing bubble particularly in Dublin and throughout the country. Nobody listened and nobody wanted to listen.

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