Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I did not interrupt the Minister. Is he saying the Financial Times is wrong? This is the interview he gave. He gave it yesterday while his Taoiseach, the leader of his Government, sat here and told Deputies Kenny and Gilmore he did not what the figures were. The Minister for Finance was going to foreign media and laying it on the line to them as to what the exact figure was.

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