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

We are dealing with questions Nos. 1 to 35, which address a broad range of issues.

After last December's meeting of the Council of Europe the Taoiseach said again that all of the agreements meant that the toxic link between sovereign and banking debt had been broken. What he has yet to do, however, is to explain how this is actually the case. It is a year and a half since the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste declared victory on this point and spoke about a seismic shift and so forth. I have asked the basic question on a number of occasions, namely, "what exactly is Ireland looking for?".

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