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Thu 11 Nov 2009November 19th, 1976: Familiar ring to debates on cut-backs in 1976
BACK PAGES:For those with long enough memories, today’s political debates have a strong ring of the less than happy 1970s and 1980s about them, as is shown by this Dáil Sketch by Denis Coghlan about the choices and divisions facing the Fine Gael-Labour government in its final months in power.
THE MINISTER for Finance gave his Labour colleagues nothing to cheer about in the Dáil yesterday, when, on the eve of the Limerick conference, he dwelt on the deeply divisive question of cut-backs in public spending and stated that the matter of changing the system of children’s allowances was not closed.
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