Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

I take no comfort from the Taoiseach's comments. He tells us that decoupling the banking debt from the sovereign is the way to go, to use his term. He has told us repeatedly that he is seeking to re-engineer the promissory note. He also tells us that he is negotiating and making telephone calls, but he has not delivered. The only piece of re-engineering that he has delivered will cost the taxpayer an additional €90 million. If he considers that a success, heaven forbid that we ever witness one of his failures.

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