Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No doubt the extent of their misery making will sadly become apparent in December with their budget announcement.

It does not seem to have occurred to the Taoiseach that the processes he describes, that he has embarked on and that he lauds so fully, are not working. The realpolitik of how this will play out is that, unfortunately, in the case of Ireland, because they failed to assert themselves, each of the Ministers is not equal. The fact of the matter, as the Taoiseach knows full well, is that when there is a joint statement from those three Finance Ministers it is a significant development.

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