Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Nowhere on the public record do we find the Taoiseach stating clearly that the justice of Ireland’s case requires further significant relief from bank-related debt. With the exception of one comment in Paris a year and a half ago, he has never set out the case that the scale of the debt taken on by Ireland relates directly to the failure of wider European policies. As independent commentators uniformly agree but the Government will not admit, if the current EU policies had been in place four years ago, there would never have been bailouts in Ireland, Portugal and Spain.

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