Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

One can see that - merely by coincidence, luck and haphazard - these words fall together, but it is significant because we need greater fairness.

I commend Deputy Higgins on his speech earlier. Everybody should listen to it. We need to give backbone and spine to the Government to go in and negotiate - to get a really effective team to tell the story. If Mr. Schäuble thinks that is where we are, it is all wrong. I myself tried to tell the story in January 2012 to the Bundestag budgetary committee and it was news to them that €75 billion of private banking losses had been put on the shoulders of the people of Ireland.

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