Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----has the EU had to come in and give us a crack of the whip? The whip is to get us into line and do the things we should have done years ago. We should pre-empt the EU, do it ourselves, stand on our own two feet and be in compliance with the EU targets by all means.

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