Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----with the measure that was always going to be part of the deal, otherwise, as many of the spokespersons have said on radio and in other parts of the media generally, we could not have drafted such a piece of complex legislation in the matter of hours, and all the Members know that. They are all here long enough to know that. The reason for the difficulty today, and I apologise for the inconvenience that it has caused for everybody, is that while there are reports in the media of a deal done, in principle, or a deal about to be done or whatever which way one wants to describe it, we have not yet received formal confirmation of precisely what is to be agreed and when we have-----

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