Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

The question is as follows. The Government has enthusiastically supported the treaty and has not sought to renegotiate but has given it as it is. It did not call for changes to the text regarding growth. It has done nothing compared with what the French President and his Finance Minister are now stating. All the parties of the left - the social democratic parties - and even the European Trade Union Confederation have spoken out against the treaty. When will the Tánaiste change tack? Why is his party alone on the left and in the social democratic movement in Europe so enthusiastically selling this treaty as it is?

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