Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is why the Taoiseach wrote a letter to President van Rompuy and that is why he made it clear, given at the time the bank restructuring and bank recapitalisation was undertaken here, the instruments being provided for in this agreement were not available to us, we want access to them. I hear the scepticism being expressed about this but the same scepticism was expressed from the same people when we said we would not negotiate the reduction in the interest rate, which we did to the value of €10 billion to the taxpayer.

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