Dáil debates

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

4:00 am

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

-----on the nail. It is like going back to the time when one was a child and one went to meet one's Dad to collect the wages from him. Instead, officials from the Department of Finance will be going on a Friday afternoon, cap in hand, with their list of figures. Could the Taoiseach's negotiators not have spared us that little extra humiliation? Look at the IMF deals for other countries. I have compared a number of them and when I read the Irish deal, I cringed for the small humiliations that were included in it, in my view, entirely unnecessarily. The Government ought to have had the courage to say, at least, "No", to a few of those.

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