Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What is the emerging evidence behind the scenes as to the eventual impact on this country of pillar 1 and pillar 2? From the evidence of the past 12 months or two years, changes have impacted our budgeting for the future. What can we expect, given we do not have many friends in that area when it is all boiled down, but we have many hostiles, from the United States to the rest of Europe, big countries and small countries? The net impact of what they say is they like small countries but they do not like small countries to be successful. That is a threat - perhaps to themselves. Maybe it is and maybe it is not. We have to protect in every way possible our interests in that debate because nobody else can protect us.