Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

I have asked the Taoiseach a direct question in respect of the promissory note. We want to know when the technical paper will be concluded and published. When will this Government move definitively to get a result for this State? There is no strategy. The Taoiseach is waffling and fluffing around, hoping against hope that something will break in Greece or Spain to save his blushes. That will not happen, however. Decisive and assertive action is required but the Taoiseach has proved to be incapable of that.

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