Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Tánaiste to the meeting. I heard what he said in response to Senator Kathryn Reilly's question about the debt.

People are saying to me, and I myself feel, that Ireland is fed up being told we are the best boy in the class and that we are ticking all the right boxes for the troika while getting no reward for that. Our only reward is the imposition of property tax, water charges and so on. How close are we to getting a decent write-down on the debt? Is this issue on the top of every appropriate agenda, or are there simply machinations?