Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----we got the British Government, for the first time ever, to set aside an illegal international agreement, the pathway to creating a united Ireland. In terms of what the Minister achieved, he did not betray his principles in these talks because he did not have the principle of asking for a debt write-down in the talks. His argument was to ask what was the point in asking for something or making it a precondition if he was not going to get it. That was not his principle in the first place. We all know what the Taoiseach has said.

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