Dáil debates
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Leaders' Questions
10:30 am
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
The European Commission approved that process because it was necessary. That is a criterion on which to approve the process. The Commission indicated clearly that it was. When we subsequently amended the State guarantee and went beyond the September 2010 deadline for certain types of debt, the Commission reaffirmed the necessity to continue with that guarantee in the way we have proceeded.
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