Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----they had relented and lain down in front of the juggernaut of B-B from Dún Laoghaire to wipe out Ireland's debt. We live in the world of reality and it is a fraud on the Irish people to pretend we did not inherit a situation which requires serious analysis. That is why, within the process in which we operate, the troika, the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank themselves said they will now produce a paper on opportunities for Ireland given the very onerous, unique burden our citizens have to face because of the extent of moneys borrowed for recapitalisation of the banks before the facilities of the EFSF and ESM came into being.

Deputy Boyd Barrett probably did not use the opportunity to say to the German Bundestag committee that his wages are paid by them as well. I certainly did not hear Reuters, Bloomberg or anybody else say that, because of the intervention and articulation of Deputy Boyd Barrett, Germany relented and that Ireland's debt could be wiped out in the morning.

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