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Gníomh na Polaitíochta

Séamus Mac Donnchadha Image Name: Séamus Mac Donnchadha

Seo sraith cláracha faisnéise le polaiteoirí aitheanta nach bhfuil gníomhach sa pholaitíocht níos mó.  Inniu, beidh Alan Dukes faoi agallamh, iar-Aire Airgeadais agus iar-Cheannaire Fhine Gael.  Sa chlár inniu, deir Alan Dukes go raibh daoine taobh istigh d’Fhine Gael nár mhaith ariamh dó gur ceapadh é ina Aire rialtais ar a chéad lá sa Dáil, agus bhí sé sin fós ina gcuimhne nuair a dhíbir siad as ceannaireacht an pháirtí é i 1990.  Ag caint faoin gCorparáid Éireannach um Réiteach Banc agus a cheapachán mar stiúrthóir ar an mbord sin i 2008, deir sé go raibh mí-mhuinín ag an Roinn Airgeadais sna daoine a bhí ceaptha mar stiúrthóirí, Ainneoin gurb iad an Roinn a mholl bunú an IBRC, breathnaigh siad orthu mar naimhde!  Labrann Alan inniu le Séamus Mac Donnchadha.

This is a new summer series, featuring interviews with well-known politicians who are no longer active in public life.  Today, Alan Dukes, Former Leader of Fine Gael and former Minister for Finance, is interviewed.  In the programme today, Alan says that some people within Fine Gael never forgave him for being appointed a minister on the first day of the Dáil, and that they still had that in their minds when he was outed as party leader in 1990.  Speaking of the IBRC and his appointment as chairman of the bord there in 2008, he says that the Department of Finance had no confidence in those appointed, despite the fact that it was established on their own recommendation, he said the directors were looked upon as the enemy.  He tells the story of his political life to Séamus Mac Donnchadha today.