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Brian Lenihan, Irish Finance Minister

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Hervé Amoric meets Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan. Mr Lenihan discusses the debt crisis in Ireland, its four-year recovery plan, and why he doesn't think the country's economic woes will cause any serious damage to the eurozone as a whole.

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