Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)

They are and they are very strongly linked to the riddle of austerity which is being imposed on this country.

Will the Tánaiste assure this House that he will embark on a diplomatic offensive to tell those 27 countries that the Irish people would look much more benignly on this referendum, which they want to see passed, if they looked more benignly on our debt and were prepared to give us a credit write-off?

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