Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

There is no ambiguity and I am happy to answer the question directly. The position is that the programme Ireland is in, the EU-IMF-ECB programme, the programme with the troika, will remain in place. It will continue and will be honoured until it expires at the end of 2013. It is the Government's hope and intention that by that stage we will be back in the markets and we will be able to say goodbye to the troika and fund our State in the normal way by access to the markets.

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