Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----in the letter the Taoiseach sent to President Van Rompuy and reiterated by him at the summit meeting. It is in the national interest to ensure that the euro is secure and succeeds and that the measures agreed at the summit meeting succeed. These are issues to which we can return in future debates and discussions.

When we return to those, it would be interesting to hear where Sinn Féin stands on the euro, which we have not heard today. Is it in favour of the euro or not? Where would those here who have expressed views on the proposal to go further in terms of the fiscal arrangements borrow the money, particularly if they are not going to repay the money already borrowed? At what interest rate will they borrow it? If they cannot borrow the money, what level of cuts in public services and pay, and in social welfare rates, must they have imposed on the people of this country?

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