Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

I wish to take up and deal with two points. The first has been the response, led oddly enough by the main Opposition party, to the EU-IMF facility. Second, I wish to comment on the very loose talk in Ireland for the best part of two years on the rather emotive topic of burning bondholders. The approach adopted by Fine Gael over the weekend on the EU-IMF bailout programme and its attempt to justify its position strike me as bordering on the bizarre.

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