Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yeah, I mean ... you referenced something I said in the Dáil in November of 2010. I don't recall saying it. But my position on burning bondholders or haircuts or burden-sharing, whatever phrase you like to use, has been consistent. I became finance spokesman for my party in the summer of 2010. And all the way through - and you can check the record - I said that I thought that we should burden-share with senior bondholders, but that we would only do it with the consent of the European Central Bank. That was the position. That's what's in the Fine Gael manifesto and that's what's in the programme for Government. It may not be in those exact words.