Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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The Minister of State is in danger of having the Report Stage debate on this Bill, which is very important legislation, dominated by an issue which is just being torpedoed in. That is very regrettable. It has always been the intention of this State to exit the bailout at the end of this year. That was the aim of the original bailout. The agreement reached with Greece was finalised over a year ago, so we knew this was coming. I acknowledge that the Minister of State has said that this is not ideal but it is actually unacceptable. I will not object to it but ---