Fitzgerald accuses ex-minister over rising prices

Fianna Fáil’s mishandling of budgets at the turn of the millennium has driven up Ireland’s consumer prices, former Taoiseach Garrett FitzGerald said today.

The ex-Fine Gael leader, who led two governments in the 1980s, claimed former minister for finance Charlie McCreevy’s management of the economy around 2000 boosted the cost of goods and services.