From the Sunday Business Post yesterday
Happy to set the record straight.
ONQ.
It seems I've been unfairly maligning our civil service in relation to them failing to do their job advising the government on the economic implications of government fiscal policy.[broken link removed]
Report: Dept of Finance warned government of dangerous policies
30 January 2011 By Cliff Taylor
Bertie Ahern’s Fianna Fáil-led governments ignored clear warnings from the Department of Finance about the risks of cutting taxes and increasing spending as the economy boomed, according to a confidential report prepared for the government.
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The Wright report finds that, in general, the department provided clear warnings for nearly a decade in the annual June memorandum on budget strategy, signed off by the ministers for finance and sent to the cabinet, led for most of the 2000-2010 period by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, and from May 2008 by Brian Cowen.
Happy to set the record straight.
ONQ.
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