Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In relation to the subsequent bailout and the deals prepared by the ECB, the IMF and the Commission, the rates and the terms and conditions were so penal that they were akin to the national penal laws. In Professor Lane's paper dated February 2011 he made the point that the UK and Denmark made funds available to non-EU countries at much lower rates. Why or how, in the period of solidarity, was this nation being charged an awful lot more than what other countries were establishing with bilateral rates?