Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister and the officials from the Department of Finance are involved in detailed discussions with the ECB about the promissory note. There are a range of issues on which they have been working and they are progressing those discussions with the ECB.

The question of debt sustainability is always difficult. We have made the case clearly to the European Council.

It has been accepted that Ireland is in a different position from other countries in that our banks have been recapitalised. I do not want to go back over the decisions taken by the previous Administration.

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