Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The importance of that is, if we want to attract and secure investment in Europe, including investment in this country, and job creation, we have to deal with the problem in the eurozone. There is no point in anybody drifting away from that core mission, which has to be undertaken. That is objective No. 1.

Objective No. 2 is that we get within that context the best deal for this country.

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