Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

Neither to me nor the Government because of the €160 million required to fund local services for the hundreds of thousands of people who depend on them.

With regard to the announcement on the promissory note, from my perspective and the perspective of those of us in government who have been working on substantially altering the terms of the agreement entered into by our predecessors, wherever it is announced it will be a very welcome announcement.

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