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Dermot was a guest on RT\u00c9<\/a>‘s ‘What If…’ show yesterday.\u00a0 With Mark Callanan of the Insitute of Public Administration<\/a> and presenter Diarmuid Ferriter, he was discussing “What if…domestic rates were not abolished following the General Election of 1977?”.<\/p>\n

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