Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

May I ask the Minister one last question on this section? Over the course of the year in which his Government was considering whether it would be good to go in and out and weighing this up - we should recognise that we lost some privileges as a result of that - what were the concerns that have been set to one side? What was it that had to be weighed up and was then set to one side that allowed the Minister to take the initiative to publish this Bill for us to sign up to the bank that was not clear to him or to his predecessor 12 months ago? Signing up earlier would have entitled us to additional rights within the bank.