Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Deputy does not expect us to have a debate on the revised memorandum of understanding today or tomorrow, seeing as we will not sign off on it until Friday. There is a meeting of the Whips this evening and Deputy McDonald is perfectly entitled to raise the matter so that it can be discussed whenever time permits next week. We do not have a difficulty with that.

We are focused on attempting to sort out these problems. There are constraints on Ireland because of the EU-IMF deal. We cannot borrow money, the banks cannot borrow money and the Government has made serious decisions to get out of this mess. We have no difficulty in discussing the memorandum of understanding. This is a serious challenge for people and country and we must all be involved in that. The cards left to us may not be the best but we must place them in the best order for the good of the country and the good of the people.

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