Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There was public comment at the troika's last visit - its eighth visit - that somehow there was disquiet about the Croke Park agreement. I meet it for long sessions at every meeting and I met the head of the current troika team in Brussels the week before he came here and I met him the week before that in Dublin on a private visit. I am in constant contact with him. The troika has never expressed any concerns about the robustness of the proposals because we are actually making the savings.