"It was putting a face on Tay-Sachs, " says Ms. Harney, who works at an auto-insurance company.
As a result, Harney says, American companies will start paying more for goods they buy from China.
Ms Harney's criticism follows Irish foreign minister Brian Cowen's strongly worded attack on the sanctions earlier on Thursday.
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He said the move had been backed by fellow party leaders, Councillor Jeff Green of the Conservatives and Lib Dem Councillor Tom Harney.
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Tanaiste Mary Harney said David Trimble's refusal to authorise the attendance at cross-border meetings of Sinn Fein was incompatible with the Good Friday Agreement.
"China used to be so cheap they were unbeatable, " Harney says.
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An unexpected challenge to the party leadership of Mary Harney, who is deputy prime minister and health minister, by Michael McDowell, the justice minister, was rebuffed.
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But Mr McCreevy has gone to Brussels, Ms Harney has now taken the health portfolio, and Mr Ahern's low popularity has put him under pressure to shift leftwards.
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Speaking in Londonderry, Ms Harney said it was also her view no one could be involved in the process if they were not totally committed to peaceful and democratic politics.
From Bend head southeast to Harney County, one of the least densely populated counties in the U.S., with 0.7 people per square mile in an area about the size of Maryland.
FF's Bertie Ahern as taoiseach, but with the formidable Mary Harney as tanaiste in charge of industry and enterprise, and Charlie McCreevy as finance minister, has won plaudits from Irish and overseas businessmen alike.
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Ms Harney recently took delivery of a new report on enterprise strategy by a committee chaired by Eoin O'Driscoll, managing director of Aderra, which argues not only for more emphasis on high-value-added sectors and scientific research but also for greater efforts in marketing and promotion, in which Ireland has been weak.
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