Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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It is not semantics. This is a real policy issue, namely whether we could source money on the markets or not and what we could do to improve Ireland's credit rating so that we could source that money. The advice from the rating agencies and the ECB was to reduce the contingent liability of the NAMA bonds on the State balance sheet.