Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The only source of funding that will be available is the ESM, and access to the ESM will be possible only if the treaty is ratified. If, as a country, we want to have the insurance, the safety net and the reliability that is associated with having emergency funding available to us, which is prudent, we should be clear that the only source of that is the ESM, and access to that means ratifying the treaty.

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