Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)

Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to his assertion in Dáil Éireann last Wednesday that he had concern about the collapse of the programme that is, the EU-IMF programme were the bond due to be paid by the former Anglo Irish Bank last week not paid, and his warning that if the programme collapsed, we would have to make the full adjustment in one year, if there is any record of threats to this effect made by the troika, other than the comment by the late Brian Lenihan TD, then Minister for Finance, quoted by the Taoiseach last Wednesday; if so, the details of these threats; his views, in view of the fact that a programme has been successfully put in place, that a non-payment of bondholders would lead to the collapse of that programme; and the way that this might happen. [34878/11]

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