Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Different things have been said by the representatives of the new Greek Government during the election campaign and since the election. So far there has not been a consistent set of demands. Different people have said different things, or at least different people have been putting a different degree of emphasis on what they have been saying. We will see what the Greek ask is at the end of the day when it comes to the negotiating forum. There is always an element of what I believe somebody said about President Obama, which is that one campaigns in poetry and governs in prose. We are all familiar with this.

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