Deputy Billy Kelleher has raised a variety of issues. Last week the official spokesperson of the Deputy's party, Deputy Michael McGrath, was quite gracious in acknowledging the deal done and its impact on the country as we in government worked to fix the terrible damage inflicted by our predecessors in government. It was a significant achievement last week, despite the fact that the Leader of Fianna Fáil told the House in February that the idea we could unilaterally renegotiate the programme was wrong. He also told the Leader of the Labour Party at the time to stop pretending that we could dictate to the ECB and everybody else.

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