Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

The Minister for Finance went to the United States and spoke about it. He got as far away as he could from Frankfurt and then issued the threat. When he went to Mr. Trichet and put his hands up and said he knew he could not do it and that it was dreadful. The Government does not have coherence to its argument even when it is in power, and it certainly it did not have it when it was in opposition.

I am disappointed because there are so many inconsistencies in what I have heard but I am sure there will be other opportunities in the course of the debate to set the record straight.

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