Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

How does this stack up? After I gave the Germans the truthful picture, they told us that we should get a PR firm to tell the German people what the situation was because they had the wrong idea. That is because the senior people who have gone from Ireland to Frankfurt and Brussels have not given a truthful, real-time picture of the situation in this country on many fronts.

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